Book Summary: Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky
This summary of Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky sets out two competing views on the question: […]
Tag: effective altruism
Book Summary: The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
In The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, Julia Galef argues that we don’t need to deceive […]
Book Summary: Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie
In Not the End of the World, Hannah Ritchie uses data to explain why we can stand to be more optimistic about […]
Motivation, Morality and Demandingness
This is a short post with some musings on motivation, morality and demandingness, after reading Atomic Habits and Tiny Habits. In Atomic […]
Podcast Summary: EconTalk – Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the Future
Will MacAskill discusses longtermism and his book What We Owe the Future with Russ Roberts in this EconTalk podcast.
Podcast Summary: 80k Hours – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future
In this podcast summary, Will MacAskill talks about longtermism and his recent book, “What We Owe the Future”. The original podcast is 2 hours 54 minutes. The estimated reading time for this summary (excluding “My Thoughts”) is 42 minutes.
Problems with the Total View of Population Ethics
The Total View suggests that we should seek to maximise total wellbeing, including by creating new lives. There are problems with the Total View that have concerning implications in practice.
Book Summary: Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
William MacAskill is one of the founders of the Effective Altruism (EA) movement. In Doing Good Better, he explains the reasoning behind a lot of EA ideas. The EA movement has changed a bit since 2015, when MacAskill wrote the book. But the core ideas in Doing Good Better are still very solid and worth understanding.