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   William MacAskill. William David MacAskill ( né Crouch; born 24 March 1987) [2] is a Scottish philosopher and author, as well as one of the originators of the effective altruism movement. [3] [4] [5] He was a Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford, co-founded Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective ...

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   Learn about William MacAskill, a philosopher at Oxford who studies moral uncertainty, utilitarianism, and existential risks. He is the author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe The Future, and the cofounder of several effective altruism organizations.

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   Who is William MacAskill?

   • William MacAskill’s movement set out to help the global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway A.I. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way? “The world’s long-run fate depends in part on the choices we make in our lifetimes,” the philosopher William MacAskill writes. Photograph by Ulysses Ortega for The New Yorker

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   Is MacAskill a force in the world?

   • For the first time, MacAskill said, the fledgling experiment felt like “a force in the world.” MacAskill, too, was newly a force in the world. For all E.A.’s aspirations to stringency, its numbers can sometimes seem arbitrarily plastic.

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   What is MacAskill's first book?

   • MacAskill's first book, Doing Good Better, was published in 2015. MacAskill argues that many of the ways people think about doing good achieve very little, but that by applying data and scientific reasoning to the doing good, one can have a much larger positive impact.

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   What does William MacAskill say about longtermism?

   • All those numbers seem incalculably abstract but, according to the moral philosopher William MacAskill, they should command our attention. He is a proponent of what’s known as longtermism – the view that the deep future is something we have to address now.

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   Aug 8, 2022 · The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism. William MacAskill’s movement set out to help the global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway A.I. Have they seen our threats clearly, or...

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   Aug 21, 2022 · William MacAskill: ‘There are 80 trillion people yet to come. They need us to start protecting them’ | Population | The Guardian. For the many, not the few: William MacAskill. Photograph:...

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   Will is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, Oxford and notable figure within the effective altruism movement. MacAskill is the co-founder and president of 80,000 Hours, the co-founder of The Centre for Effective Altruism, the co-founder of Giving What We Can, and the author of Doing Good ...

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   Doing good better: How effective altruism can help you help others, do work that matters, and make smarter choices about giving back. W MacAskill. Penguin. , 2016. 63. 2016. Replaceability, career choice, and making a difference. W MacAskill. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17, 269-283.

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    author of Freakonomics. "A data nerd after my own heart." Bill Gates. A new book about how to really make a difference, from a rising star and co-founder of the effective altruism movement. ORDER THE BOOK: All author profits will be donated to the world's most effective charities. Amazon | Indigo | Barnes & Noble | The Guardian.