Month: October 2019

Combining Empathy with Evidence

Cost-Effectiveness: Reading Group Notes 10/7

During this reading group, we discussed philosopher Toby Ord’s “The Moral Imperative towards Cost Effectiveness” and effective altruist Saulius Simsikas’s “List of Ways in Which Cost-effectiveness Estimates can be Misleading.”


October 14, 2019 0

Longtermism: Lecture Notes 9/30

On Monday September 30, Professor William MacAskill from Oxford University visited Princeton and delivered a lecture titled “The Ethics of the Next Billion Years.” Princeton Effective Altruism and the University Center for Human Values co-hosted the event. MacAskill co-founded the Global Priorities Institute and authored the book Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical…
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October 6, 2019 0