Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Who decides how we’ll save the future?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Who decides how we’ll save the future?
How do we make life better for future generations? Who gets to make those decisions? These are tough questions, and today’s guest, philosopher William MacAskill (@willmacaskill), tries to help us answer them.
References:
What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
Effective altruism's most controversial idea
How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force
Effective altruism’s longtermist goals for the future don’t hurt people in the present
Hosts:
Bryan Walsh (@bryanrwalsh)
Sigal Samuel (@sigalsamuel)
Credits:
Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer
Libby Nelson, editorial adviser
A.M. Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts
Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
View all episodes
By Vox
4.4
77857,785 ratings
How do we make life better for future generations? Who gets to make those decisions? These are tough questions, and today’s guest, philosopher William MacAskill (@willmacaskill), tries to help us answer them.
References:
What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
Effective altruism's most controversial idea
How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force
Effective altruism’s longtermist goals for the future don’t hurt people in the present
Hosts:
Bryan Walsh (@bryanrwalsh)
Sigal Samuel (@sigalsamuel)
Credits:
Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer
Libby Nelson, editorial adviser
A.M. Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts
Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
More shows like Explain It to Me
View all
On the Media
9,245 Listeners
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
10,723 Listeners
Switched on Pop
2,689 Listeners
Pivot
9,571 Listeners
Gastropod
3,642 Listeners
Decoder with Nilay Patel
3,137 Listeners
Science Vs
12,084 Listeners
The Daily
112,843 Listeners
Good One
1,486 Listeners
Up First from NPR
56,894 Listeners
Radio Atlantic
2,351 Listeners
Today, Explained
10,263 Listeners
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
7,214 Listeners
What Next
2,414 Listeners
Post Reports
5,477 Listeners
Throughline
16,379 Listeners
Land of the Giants
2,164 Listeners
Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
42 Listeners
Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
23,598 Listeners
Consider This from NPR
6,453 Listeners
A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe
729 Listeners
Hard Fork
5,538 Listeners
Good Noticings
6,484 Listeners
The Ezra Klein Show
16,223 Listeners
Unexplainable
2,309 Listeners
Cover Story
1,217 Listeners
Not Just Football with Cam Heyward
151 Listeners
Networth and Chill with Your Rich BFF
1,758 Listeners
Prof G Markets
1,446 Listeners
Bird's Eye View with Sue Bird
432 Listeners
Solutions with Henry Blodget
27 Listeners