Who decides how we’ll save the future?

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

How do we make life better for future generations? Who gets to make those decisions? These are tough questions, and today’s guest, philosopher William MacAskill (@willmacaskill), tries to help us answer them. References: What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill Effective altruism's most controversial idea How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force Effective altruism’s longtermist goals for the future don’t hurt people in the present Hosts: Bryan Walsh (@bryanrwalsh) Sigal Samuel (@sigalsamuel) Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser A.M. Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for today's show comes from Slack.
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0:34.6	Get started at slack.com slash DHQ.
0:38.3	Slack, where the future works.
0:40.7	Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weeds.
1:00.6	I'm your host today, Brian Walsh, editor of Vox's Future Perfect section.
1:05.5	I'm joined by my colleague at Future Perfect, Vox Senior Reporter Sigal Samuel.
1:10.4	We also have Will McCaskill, a moral-flustered Oxford University and the author of the new
1:15.1	book What We O the Future.
1:17.7	We're here to talk with Will about a concept that sees our attention here at Future Perfect.
1:22.8	It's called Long Termisms.
1:33.6	Long termism rests on three basic tenets that I'll quote from Will's book.
1:37.8	For people count, there could be a lot of them.
1:41.3	We can make their lives go better.
1:43.9	Simple enough, right?
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