Will MacAskill is one of the founders of the Effective Altruist movement and the author of the upcoming book, What We Owe The Future.

We talk about improving the future, risk of extinction & collapse, technological & moral change, problems of academia, who changes history, and much more.

Read Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-macaskill
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But What We Owe The Future: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541618629
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:18 Effective Altruism and Western values
08:42 The contingency of technology
12:57 Who changes history?
18:55 Longtermist institutional reform
26:51 Are companies longtermist?
29:52 Living in an era of plasticity
35:47 How good can the future be?
40:13 Contra Tyler Cowen on what’s most important
46:31 AI and the centralization of power
52:29 The problems with academia

(From Youtube)