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William MacAskill

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William David MacAskill (born 24 March 1987 as William David Crouch) is a Scottish philosopher. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute and the Director and Founder of the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. MacAskill is also the author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and the co-founder of Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours and the Centre for Effective Altruism.

Further reading

Galef, Julia (2017) Moral uncertainty (Will MacAskill), Rationally Speaking, April 2.

MacAskill, William & Darius Meissner (2020) Introduction to Utilitarianism: An Online Textbook, Oxford.

MacAskill, William, Krister Bykvist & Toby Ord (2020) Moral Uncertainty, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Perry, Lucas (2018) AI alignment podcast: moral uncertainty and the path to AI alignment with William MacAskill, AI Alignment podcast, September 17.
Interview with William MacAskill about moral uncertainty and other topics.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Our descendants will probably see us as moral monsters. what should we do about that?, 80,000 Hours, January 19.
Interview with William MacAskill about the long reflection and other topics.

External links

William MacAskill. Official website.

William MacAskill. Effective Altruism Forum account.

An­nounc­ing What We Owe The Future

William_MacAskill30 Mar 2022 19:37 UTC
300 points
36 comments5 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing!

William_MacAskill14 Aug 2019 15:52 UTC
153 points
138 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts on “The Case for Strong Longter­mism” (Greaves & MacAskill)

MichaelA2 May 2021 18:00 UTC
30 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture is out today

William_MacAskill16 Aug 2022 15:13 UTC
293 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

William MacAskill—The Daily Show

Tyner28 Sep 2022 19:31 UTC
132 points
27 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The Case for Strong Longtermism

Global Priorities Institute3 Sep 2019 1:17 UTC
14 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Cri­tique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy Peo­ple?”

Magnus Vinding23 Aug 2022 9:21 UTC
220 points
115 comments8 min readEA link

Sam Har­ris and Will MacAskill: Pod­cast tran­script (2020)

Aaron Gertler 🔸3 Jul 2021 21:48 UTC
30 points
0 comments68 min readEA link

[Question] Will the vast ma­jor­ity of tech­nolog­i­cal progress hap­pen in the longterm fu­ture?

Vasco Grilo🔸8 Jul 2023 8:40 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[BBC Fu­ture] What is longter­mism and why does it mat­ter?

Luke Freeman8 Aug 2022 7:34 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bbc.com)

Time Ar­ti­cle Dis­cus­sion—“Effec­tive Altru­ist Lead­ers Were Re­peat­edly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Years Be­fore FTX Col­lapsed”

Nathan Young15 Mar 2023 12:40 UTC
241 points
175 comments4 min readEA link
(time.com)

Help with Up­com­ing NPR In­ter­view with William MacAskill

Avery J.C. Kleinman17 Aug 2022 20:01 UTC
62 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Prior prob­a­bil­ity of this be­ing the most im­por­tant century

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Jul 2023 7:18 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

A per­sonal state­ment on FTX

William_MacAskill12 Nov 2022 16:40 UTC
289 points
144 comments2 min readEA link

Will MacAskill: Open­ing talk (2015)

EA Global28 Aug 2015 8:37 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Next week I’m in­ter­view­ing Will MacAskill — what should I ask?

Robert_Wiblin8 Apr 2022 14:20 UTC
25 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Will MacAskill has stepped down as trustee of EV UK

lincolnq21 Sep 2023 15:41 UTC
141 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Short sum­mary of What We Owe The Future

finm12 Feb 2023 16:27 UTC
29 points
3 comments7 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.com)

We need an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion into how EA lead­er­ship has han­dled SBF and FTX

AnonymousEAForumAccount24 Jul 2024 3:24 UTC
141 points
52 comments12 min readEA link

Will MacAskill’s role in con­nect­ing SBF to Elon Musk for a po­ten­tial Twit­ter deal

dyj3465012 Nov 2022 23:37 UTC
60 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

Will MacAskill: Open­ing talk (2017)

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Will MacAskill: How can effec­tive al­tru­ism stay cu­ri­ous?

EA Global8 Jun 2018 7:15 UTC
9 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Will MacAskill: Clos­ing re­marks (2017)

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

I in­ter­viewed Will MacAskill on my pod­cast!

Dwarkesh Patel9 Aug 2022 20:21 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Will MacAskill: The Begin­ning of History

Zach Stein-Perlman13 Aug 2022 22:45 UTC
36 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.foreignaffairs.com)

[link post] The Case for Longter­mism in The New York Times

abier5 Aug 2022 16:27 UTC
133 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

What We Owe The Fu­ture: A re­view and sum­mary of what I learned

Michael Townsend🔸16 Aug 2022 14:19 UTC
45 points
4 comments9 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

The Reluc­tant Prophet of Effec­tive Altru­ism | The New Yorker

Joseph Lemien9 Aug 2022 2:11 UTC
76 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(www.newyorker.com)

When should an effec­tive al­tru­ist donate?

Global Priorities Institute31 Aug 2019 13:39 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Will MacAskill, Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Dono­van, & An­dreas Mo­gensen: Global Pri­ori­ties In­si­tute’s 2018 goals and research

EA Global26 Oct 2018 8:37 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The Sig­nifi­cance, Per­sis­tence, Contin­gency Frame­work (William MacAskill, Teruji Thomas and Aron Val­lin­der)

Global Priorities Institute14 Oct 2022 9:24 UTC
43 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

[Question] Which of Will MacAskill’s many re­cent pod­cast epi­sodes would you recom­mend to other en­gaged EAs?

Aaron Bergman15 Aug 2022 11:44 UTC
11 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Will MacAskill: Do­ing good together

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Mo­ral progress and “Cause X”

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
39 points
2 comments30 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Paper sum­mary: Are we liv­ing at the hinge of his­tory? (William MacAskill)

Global Priorities Institute13 Mar 2023 18:05 UTC
70 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Paper sum­mary: Longter­mist in­sti­tu­tional re­form (Tyler M. John and William MacAskill)

Global Priorities Institute13 Mar 2023 18:07 UTC
41 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Sam Har­ris and William MacAskill on SBF & EA

AnonymousTurtle1 Apr 2024 23:58 UTC
72 points
20 comments1 min readEA link
(www.samharris.org)

Sam Har­ris Pod­cast with Will McAskill, on SBF and EA

Tobias Dänzer15 Apr 2024 13:41 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(wakingup.libsyn.com)

The Colo­nial­ism of William MacAskill’s What We Owe the Future

Vivian4 Jul 2023 15:48 UTC
−16 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture Up­dated Me­dia List

James Aitchison23 Sep 2022 13:47 UTC
23 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tions to ask Will MacAskill about ‘What We Owe The Fu­ture’ for 80,000 Hours Pod­cast (pos­si­ble new au­dio in­tro to longter­mism)

Robert_Wiblin21 Jun 2022 19:21 UTC
14 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Cover story on EA in Time magazine

TW12310 Aug 2022 15:26 UTC
94 points
19 comments1 min readEA link
(time.com)

Will MacAskill: Why should effec­tive al­tru­ists em­brace un­cer­tainty?

EA Global4 Dec 2018 16:23 UTC
33 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Will MacAskill: Clos­ing re­marks (2020)

EA Global21 Mar 2020 8:18 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Joseph Gor­don-Le­vitt, Ju­lia Galef, AJ Ja­cobs, and Will MacAskill: EA in media

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
9 points
0 comments24 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Will MacAskill: Fireside chat (2019)

EA Global18 Oct 2019 18:05 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Sum­ma­riz­ing the com­ments on William MacAskill’s NYT opinion piece on longtermism

West21 Sep 2022 17:46 UTC
106 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

[Linkpost] [Sum­mary] The Guardian: Is the effec­tive al­tru­ism move­ment in trou­ble? (FTX re­lated opinion piece)

David Varga16 Nov 2022 12:10 UTC
27 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theguardian.com)

Will MacAskill on Tyler Cowen’s Podcast

Wim10 Aug 2022 16:47 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(cowenconvos.libsyn.com)

Ezra Klein and Will MacAskill on Longter­mism

Kaleem9 Aug 2022 14:26 UTC
36 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Some im­por­tant ques­tions for the EA Leadership

GideonF16 Nov 2022 17:10 UTC
243 points
113 comments3 min readEA link

Will longter­mists self-efface

Noah Scales12 Aug 2022 2:32 UTC
−7 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

Will MacAskill on his ‘Eat That Elephant’ rou­tine, learn­ing from suc­cess­ful peo­ple, and the diminish­ing marginal re­turns of time spent work­ing [blog cross-post]

lynettebye9 Oct 2019 18:40 UTC
43 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

Will MacAskill: Effec­tive al­tru­ism in 2017

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

New in­ter­view with SBF on Will MacAskill, “earn to give” and EA

teddyschleifer7 Dec 2022 1:48 UTC
101 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(puck.news)

Paper sum­mary: The paral­y­sis ar­gu­ment (William MacAskill and An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities Institute16 Dec 2022 16:12 UTC
18 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Will MacAskill Me­dia for WWOTF—Full List

James Aitchison30 Aug 2022 20:36 UTC
70 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing The Log­i­cal Foun­da­tion, an EA-Aligned Non­profit with a Plan to End Poverty With Guaran­teed Income

Michael Simm18 Nov 2022 8:13 UTC
17 points
3 comments24 min readEA link
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