Evolving Effective Altruism: dialogue with Rufus Pollock.

Rufus Pollock is an entrepreneur, researcher and technologist and co-founder of Life Itself and the Second Renaissance initiative.

In a wide-ranging conversation that draws on Heidegger, Buddhism, John Vervaeke, Iain McGilchrist and Christopher Alexander, Rufus and I discuss how the Effective Altruism movement might evolve in ways that combine rationality and wisdom.

We discuss our recent thinking on what I’ve called Wise Altruism and what Rufus calls Pragmatic Utopianism.