Hello there! I have been thinking about reading at least one important EA book a month for the following 12 to really get acquainted with the principles and ideas behind it (admittedly, some thick books might require more time). The first three I had in mind for what I owe to the future (pun intended!) would be:
February: Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset (thanks for the recommendation, Lumpyproletariat).
March: William MacAskill, What We Owe the Future
April: William MacAskill, Doing Good Better
I am open to suggestions for the next ones—I was thinking about Toby Ord’s The Precipice andsome stuff from Peter Singer and Derek Parfit.
Should anyone be interested in joining (which I imagine would only appeal to people who have recently become interested in EA like me), perhaps we could arrange some online (zoom?, webex?, google meet?) sessions for discussion and for proposing further reading.
As for dates/hours: EU citizen here under the Central European Standard Time zone (GMT+1), and work in the afternoons and evenings (i.e. from 3 to 10 pm), from Monday to Friday.
Online EA bookclub, anyone?
Hello there! I have been thinking about reading at least one important EA book a month for the following 12 to really get acquainted with the principles and ideas behind it (admittedly, some thick books might require more time). The first three I had in mind for what I owe to the future (pun intended!) would be:
February: Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset (thanks for the recommendation, Lumpyproletariat).
March: William MacAskill, What We Owe the Future
April: William MacAskill, Doing Good Better
I am open to suggestions for the next ones—I was thinking about Toby Ord’s The Precipice and some stuff from Peter Singer and Derek Parfit.
Should anyone be interested in joining (which I imagine would only appeal to people who have recently become interested in EA like me), perhaps we could arrange some online (zoom?, webex?, google meet?) sessions for discussion and for proposing further reading.
As for dates/hours: EU citizen here under the Central European Standard Time zone (GMT+1), and work in the afternoons and evenings (i.e. from 3 to 10 pm), from Monday to Friday.
Cheers,
M.