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News ah, hello, welcome to so if you could visionary me. So if he shivered times of uncertainty, empathy is our moral compass and outwards. Him is our way through. But how to make sure that are good, intention to not pay the road to how i ask effective altruism evangelist. Professor of philosophy at Oxford University, william mcgasey, william a Cash Skill Professor of philosophy at Oxford University and the co founder of the center for effective altruism. Surely great to have you with us today. Welcome to our show will be here. Thank you for inviting me on. So alright, so the movement here are associated with is called effective altruism. I mean, the very notion of effective altruism makes me wonder, can altruism be ineffective or even harmful in what cases . Yes, so i think sadly isnt very often is ineffective or even harmful. So there are many attempts where people find, do some of good actually end up achieving very little or just receiving far less than they could have done. So for
Possible might be aimed at harming the groups image. The problem is that a huge number of people have gathered near the airport and there was a threat that the single person, one person alone can carry out an attack and kill people in order to damage the taliban reputation. And germany says its sending evacuations from afghanistan. Because the situation is too dangerous, but other nations, including britain, france, and the us pledge to carry on in a televised address, president biden. To advantage the american lives last. We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down to make you pay our reporting continues online, get the fax, we know in the analysis, you need to give it some clarity on context right now with T Dot Com here. So if you shevardnadze said that the vision re Hello Welcome to so if you could visionary me sophie shepherd, times of uncertainty. Empathy is our moral compass, and out rosen is our way through. But how to make sure that our good intentions do no
Can focus on time and money on do an enormous amount to improve the well lets talk about the inefficient ways to quench my desire to do something altruistic. Like i read an example in one of your interviews, a cherry 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 wasted, give me other causes that are ineffective enough to be donating too. If i spend money on for instance alzheimers research is it like money will spend . Is it effective . May so i mean, something like funding out same as the Search Or Funding treatment for illnesses that effects some of its just countries in the world. Neither good things do that. Making the world better. The question is, are they the most effective things you can be doing . And i think generally not. And the reason being that illnesses affects people in which country as well as all ready an enormous amount of money and resources going
People find, do some of good actually end up achieving very little or just achieving far less than they could have done. So for example, a program in the United States called scared spate, takes juvenile link once and shows them round cousins in order to scan them out of a life of crime. But this has been studied many times over and actually it turns out that this program increases the rates of criminal activity among those teenagers in the years following the program. So this is actually an example of an activity thats actively harmful, not just ineffective, but most of the time things do some amount of good is just the very best things we can focus on time and money on. Do an enormous amount to improve the wealth. Lets talk about the inefficient ways to quench my desire to do something altruistic. Like i read an example in one of your interviews, a cherry that for instance, sends books to africa for kids to learn with. But theres no teachers there. So the books arent really making mu