The flip side here is that What We Owe the Future isn’t really a philosophy book, or at the very least it reads pretty differently to me than other analytical philosophy books.
My argument here is that Will probably has one of the if not the best understanding of longtermism and EA at a ‘theoretical’ level than anyone else in the world. This made him incredibly well-placed to essentially ‘set the direction’ of the research and identify what to focus on in WWOTF. He was then able to engage with individual experts to write the individual chapters. He has demonstrated an ability to write compelling, engaging books (Doing Good Better) so should be able to tie up expert research into a readable book. Overall he seems like an incredibly good choice to write WWOTF.
The flip side here is that What We Owe the Future isn’t really a philosophy book, or at the very least it reads pretty differently to me than other analytical philosophy books.
And indeed Will consulted many experts extensively.
My argument here is that Will probably has one of the if not the best understanding of longtermism and EA at a ‘theoretical’ level than anyone else in the world. This made him incredibly well-placed to essentially ‘set the direction’ of the research and identify what to focus on in WWOTF. He was then able to engage with individual experts to write the individual chapters. He has demonstrated an ability to write compelling, engaging books (Doing Good Better) so should be able to tie up expert research into a readable book. Overall he seems like an incredibly good choice to write WWOTF.