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To know why the why dont you go down with the white house. So i dont know how i dont think its the fault of the clothes. Of the. Top that wanted to develop. A new number 1000001 it. May. 6 6 2 well. To so think of visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze in times of uncertainty empathy our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how to make sure that our good intentions are not pave the road to hell i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the last of the at Oxford University and the cofounder of the center of for effective altruism its really great to have you with us today welcome to our show was. Great to be here thank you for inviting me on so all right so the movement here associated with this called sect of altruism i mean the very notion of this active altruism makes me wonder can altruism be in the affective or even harmful and in what cases yes i think suddenly isnt very often as ine
Economy has been growing, it needs to boost its exports more. This will help with the, so thats a very important factor for, for china, but also more broadly for the region, it means that people will be able to look at exports again and that there will be free trade. And so the big winner is china, but i think the whole region will probably benefit the u. S. Was not involved just how much do they stand to lose by a excluded from all of this . Well, this is just a sign of the kind of the chaos thats been going on in terms of global trade. Over the last 4 years, intensified of course, by the coronavirus epidemic. The u. S. Will stand to lose quite a lot because it had hoped just out of previous trade agreements which, which dont trump withdrew from i think now with the new president elect in the, in the united states, we may see a move back towards more global trade but its going to take time because the u. S. Still needs to recover from the pandemic. So its going to be a while, i think
Thats actively harmful not just in affective but most of the time things do sentiment of good is just that the very best things we can focus our time and money on do normas them out into the world lets talk about the inefficient ways to quench my desire to do something outrageous to what i read an example in one of your interviewees a charity that for instance sends books to africa for kids to learn with but theres no teachers there so the books arent really making much difference so your money sort of waste it give me other causes that arent effective enough to be donating to if i spend money on for instance Alzheimers Research is it like money well spent is it effective. Ok so i mean Something Like funding out same as the search or funding treatment for illnesses that affects some of it just countries in the world you know these are good things to do theyre making the world better but the question is are they the most effective things you can be doing and i think generally not and th