William_MacAskill

Bootstrapping to viatopia
by William_MacAskill @ 2025-10-13 | +34 | 0 comments

Effective altruism in the age of AGI
by William_MacAskill @ 2025-10-10 | +462 | 0 comments

How to make the future better (other than by reducing extinction risk)
by William_MacAskill @ 2025-08-15 | +44 | 0 comments

The trajectory of the future could soon get set in stone
by William_MacAskill, Forethought @ 2025-08-11 | +38 | 0 comments

Will morally motivated actors steer us towards a near-best future?
by William_MacAskill, finm, Forethought @ 2025-08-08 | +47 | 0 comments

How hard to achieve is eutopia?
by William_MacAskill, finm, Forethought @ 2025-08-06 | +56 | 0 comments

Should we aim for flourishing over mere survival? The Better Futures series.
by William_MacAskill, Forethought @ 2025-08-04 | +163 | 0 comments

Moral error as an existential risk
by William_MacAskill @ 2025-03-17 | +101 | 0 comments

Personal reflections on FTX
by William_MacAskill @ 2024-04-18 | +235 | 0 comments

Decision-making and decentralisation in EA
by William_MacAskill @ 2023-06-26 | +271 | 0 comments

William_MacAskill's Quick takes
by William_MacAskill @ 2022-11-28 | +8 | 0 comments

A personal statement on FTX
by William_MacAskill @ 2022-11-12 | +289 | 0 comments

What We Owe the Future, Chapter 1
by William_MacAskill @ 2022-08-16 | +44 | 0 comments

What We Owe The Future is out today
by William_MacAskill @ 2022-08-16 | +293 | 0 comments

EA and the current funding situation
by William_MacAskill @ 2022-05-10 | +568 | 0 comments

Announcing What We Owe The Future
by William_MacAskill @ 2022-03-30 | +300 | 0 comments

Are we living at the most influential time in history?
by William_MacAskill @ 2019-09-03 | +205 | 0 comments

Ask Me Anything!
by William_MacAskill @ 2019-08-14 | +153 | 0 comments

'Longtermism'
by William_MacAskill @ 2019-07-25 | +133 | 0 comments

Defining Effective Altruism
by William_MacAskill @ 2019-07-19 | +113 | 0 comments

Age-Weighted Voting
by William_MacAskill @ 2019-07-12 | +74 | 0 comments

A philosophical introduction to effective altruism
by William_MacAskill @ 2019-07-10 | +56 | 0 comments

Aid Scepticism and Effective Altruism
by William_MacAskill @ 2019-07-03 | +71 | 0 comments

Announcing the new Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research
by William_MacAskill @ 2018-12-04 | +62 | 0 comments

Projects I'd like to see
by William_MacAskill @ 2017-06-12 | +42 | 0 comments

Introducing CEA's Guiding Principles
by William_MacAskill @ 2017-03-08 | +48 | 0 comments

[CEA Update] Updates from January 2017
by William_MacAskill @ 2017-02-13 | +9 | 0 comments

Introducing the EA Funds
by William_MacAskill @ 2017-02-09 | +46 | 0 comments

CEA is Fundraising! (Winter 2016)
by William_MacAskill @ 2016-12-06 | +9 | 0 comments

[CEA Update] October 2016
by William_MacAskill @ 2016-11-15 | +7 | 0 comments

Setting Community Norms and Values: A response to the InIn Open Letter
by William_MacAskill @ 2016-10-26 | +38 | 0 comments

CEA Update: September 2016
by William_MacAskill @ 2016-10-12 | +7 | 0 comments

CEA Updates + August 2016 update
by William_MacAskill @ 2016-10-12 | +7 | 0 comments

Should you switch away from earning to give? Some considerations.
by William_MacAskill @ 2016-08-25 | +15 | 0 comments

Some Organisational Changes at the Centre for Effective Altruism
by William_MacAskill @ 2016-07-23 | +31 | 0 comments

Call for papers for a special journal issue on EA
by William_MacAskill @ 2016-03-14 | +9 | 0 comments

Assessing EA Outreach’s media coverage in 2014
by William_MacAskill @ 2015-03-18 | +11 | 0 comments

Announcing a forthcoming book on effective altruism
by William_MacAskill @ 2014-03-16 | +3 | 0 comments

The history of the term 'effective altruism'
by William_MacAskill @ 2014-03-11 | +54 | 0 comments

Where I'm giving and why: Will MacAskill
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-12-30 | +1 | 0 comments

What's the best domestic charity?
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-12-10 | +2 | 0 comments

Want to give feedback on a draft sample chapter for a book on effective altruism...
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-09-22 | 0 | 0 comments

How might we be wildly wrong?
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-09-04 | +3 | 0 comments

Money can buy you (a bit) of happiness
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-07-29 | +1 | 0 comments

On discount rates
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-07-22 | +2 | 0 comments

Notes on not dying
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-07-15 | +11 | 0 comments

Helping other altruists
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-07-01 | +18 | 0 comments

The rules of effective altruism. Rule #1: don’t die
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-06-24 | +7 | 0 comments

Vegetarianism, health, and promoting the right changes
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-06-07 | +3 | 0 comments

On the robustness of cost-effectiveness estimates
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-05-24 | +5 | 0 comments

Peter Singer's TED talk on effective altruism
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-05-22 | +1 | 0 comments

Getting inspired by cost-effective giving
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-05-20 | +3 | 0 comments

$1.25/day - What does that mean?
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-05-17 | +93 | 0 comments

An example of do-gooding done wrong
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-05-15 | +9 | 0 comments

What is effective altruism?
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-05-13 | +15 | 0 comments

Doing well by doing good: careers that benefit others also benefit you
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-04-18 | 0 | 0 comments

To save the world, don’t get a job at a charity; go work on Wall Street
by William_MacAskill @ 2013-02-27 | +3 | 0 comments

Some general concerns about GiveWell
by William_MacAskill @ 2012-12-23 | +2 | 0 comments

GiveWell's recommendation of GiveDirectly
by William_MacAskill @ 2012-11-30 | +2 | 0 comments

Researching what we should
by William_MacAskill @ 2012-11-12 | 0 | 0 comments

The most important unsolved problems in ethics
by William_MacAskill @ 2012-10-15 | +16 | 0 comments

How to be a high impact philosopher, part II
by William_MacAskill @ 2012-09-27 | 0 | 0 comments

How to be a high impact philosopher
by William_MacAskill @ 2012-05-08 | +3 | 0 comments

Practical ethics given moral uncertainty
by William_MacAskill @ 2012-01-31 | +23 | 0 comments

Giving isn’t demanding*
by William_MacAskill @ 2011-11-25 | +22 | 0 comments