How to use your time and money for good — as effectively as possible — with Will MacAskill

The TED Interview

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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To get a free copy of the Infectious Generosity book, visit ted.com/generosity

Will McCaskill is a moral philosopher and the cofounder of the Effective Altruism Movement, a school of thought that tries to answer the question: How can we do as much good as possible? Chris and Will talk about how to use evidence to figure out how to help solve the world’s most pressing problems efficiently. Then, they discuss why focusing our efforts on some issues over others is both a compelling philosophical question — and a complex project to scale up.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:02.0	Collective
0:10.0	Hello there.
0:12.0	Hello there, I'm Chris Anderson. This is the Ted Interview. Now this season we're expanding
0:18.1	on an idea that I believe can offer a response to many of the issues we're currently facing as a society.
0:24.6	It's an idea I wrote a book about called Infectious Generosity. In the spirit of
0:30.5	generosity we're offering free copies of both the ebook and the
0:33.8	audiobook to TED interview listeners you can go to TED.com slash generosity
0:39.7	fill out the short form there to claim yours.
0:43.0	Now this podcast series is designed to amplify the themes of the book
0:47.0	by bringing some of its main characters to life before your very ears.
0:52.0	Today we're going to focus on how we make our
0:56.2	generosity more thoughtful and more effective. And the guest I'm about to
1:01.0	introduce you to has probably spent as much time thinking about
1:03.9	this topic as anyone on the planet he is will McCaskill a leading moral
1:10.3	philosopher co-founder of the Effective Ultrism Movement, EA for short.
1:17.6	And he's the author of some amazingly influential books like Doing Good better and what we owe the future. Now EA you may have
1:29.2	noticed has been subject of a lot of discussion in the last couple years, some of it quite heated.
1:35.1	I can't wait to get Will's perspective on recent controversies, but even more important than that,
1:41.1	a true understanding of his thinking about generosity,
1:45.0	I mean I really think the questions will be asking each other today,
1:49.0	are right up there among the most important questions anyone can ask of their own life.
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