Hello! My name is Manuel del Río. I am a 42-year old Spanish trilingual (Galician, English and Spanish) TEFL teacher and satellite school head of studies, and I have been working for the last twelve years in Official Language Schools of the Galician Autonomous Region (Northwestern corner of Spain ). Other work I have done was in the fields of translation and cultural journalism.
I studied at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where I took degrees in History and English Philology, and a Master’s in Literary Theory, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.
I recently learned about Effective Altruism as an aftermath of the FTX bankruptcy affair (some marginal good can come out of the bad, I guess) and am interested in learning more about it and possibly getting engaged. I find its minimalistic program of helping others in a rationally optimized way quite appealing, and have informed myself about some of the wonderful work the people in this community are doing. I do have some intellectual qualms about strict utilitarianism as an ethical compass, and have a Confucian affinity for helping those near us and therefore, making distinctions, but I don’t find them incompatible with a juxtaposed broader sweep. One can help the community AND the wider circle of humanity.
I look forward to getting to know more about EA and its community everyone in this community, and getting myself involved.
Hello! My name is Manuel del Río. I am a 42-year old Spanish trilingual (Galician, English and Spanish) TEFL teacher and satellite school head of studies, and I have been working for the last twelve years in Official Language Schools of the Galician Autonomous Region (Northwestern corner of Spain ). Other work I have done was in the fields of translation and cultural journalism.
I studied at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where I took degrees in History and English Philology, and a Master’s in Literary Theory, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.
I recently learned about Effective Altruism as an aftermath of the FTX bankruptcy affair (some marginal good can come out of the bad, I guess) and am interested in learning more about it and possibly getting engaged. I find its minimalistic program of helping others in a rationally optimized way quite appealing, and have informed myself about some of the wonderful work the people in this community are doing. I do have some intellectual qualms about strict utilitarianism as an ethical compass, and have a Confucian affinity for helping those near us and therefore, making distinctions, but I don’t find them incompatible with a juxtaposed broader sweep. One can help the community AND the wider circle of humanity.
I look forward to getting to know more about EA and its community everyone in this community, and getting myself involved.
Have a nice day!