The effectof altruism community was good in pointing to wards the risks of our future epidemics way before the pendemic. There was a significant amount of advice to government about kind of locking down earlier rather than later, as a result of understanding how bad this was going to get. However, i really wish we'd done more, like, i wish we've done so much more earlier, so that perhaps if we'd been pushing for human challenge stylesike years before, we actually could have had the regulation in place such that you could quickly do that in an emergency situation. If those had been able to go ahead, that would have enabled us to have rolled out the vaccine kin of months
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Will MacAskill is the philosopher thinking a million years into the future who is also having a bit of a moment in the present. As Associate Professor in Philosophy and Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford, he is co-founder of the effective altruism movement, which uses evidence and reason as the driver to help maximise how we can better resource the world. MacAskill's writing has found fans ranging from Elon Musk to Stephen Fry and his new book is What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View. Our host on the show is Max Roser, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development and founder and editor of Our World in Data.
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