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William MacAskill

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in Glasgow

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I'm Will MacAskill, an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford, and author of Doing Good Better (Gotham Books, 2015). I've also cofounded two non-profits: 80,000 Hours, which provides research and advice on how you can best make a difference through your career, and Giving What We Can, which encourages people to commit to give at least 10% of their income to the most effective charities. These organisations helped to spark the effective altruism movement. ...more

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	Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference 4.18 avg rating — 7,795 ratings — published 2015 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Owe the Future 3.82 avg rating — 6,285 ratings — published 2022 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Right to Rule [Hardcover], A Very Stable Genius [Hardcover], What We Owe The Future 3 Books Collection Set by Ben Riley-Smith, Philip Rucker, William MacAskill (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Effective Altruism Handbook by Ryan Carey (Editor), Peter Singer (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), William MacAskill (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.05 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moral Uncertainty by William MacAskill (Goodreads Author), Krister Bykvist, Toby Ord 4.09 avg rating — 76 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice by Prof. Richard Chappell, Mr. Darius Meissner, William MacAskill (Goodreads Author) 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utilitarianism by William MacAskill (Goodreads Author), Darius Messner, Lucy Hampton 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collection Set: What We Owe the Future / Doing Good Better 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Faire le bien, en mieux !: L'altruisme efficace by William MacAskill (Goodreads Author), Matthieu Ricard (Preface), Philippine Donnelly (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“One additional unit of income can do a hundred times as much to the benefit the extreme poor as it can to benefit you or I [earning the typical US wage of $28,000 or ‎£18,000 per year]. [I]t's not often you have two options, one of which is a hundred times better than the other. Imagine a happy hour where you could either buy yourself a beet for $5 or buy someone else a beer for 5¢. If that were the case, we'd probably be pretty generous – next round's on me! But that's effectively the situation we're in all the time. It's like a 99% off sale, or buy one, get ninety-nine free. It might be the most amazing deal you'll see in your life.”
― William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

tags: charity, effective-altruism, extreme-poverty, global-poverty, marginal-utility, marginal-value, poverty, poverty-reduction

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“The challenge for us is this: How can we ensure that, when we try to help others, we do so as effectively as possible?”
― William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

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“We very often fail to think as carefully about helping others as we could, mistakenly believing that applying data and rationality to a charitable endeavor robs the act of virtue. And that means we pass up opportunities to make a tremendous difference.”
― William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

tags: charity, doing-good, helping-others, intelligence, reason, thinking, virtue

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