Wise Altruism - talk at Life Itself Research

Hi folks, for those who prefer watching or listening, and maybe didn’t get round to reading my recent quite long post on Wise Altruism, here’s a video of my talk on the subject (and subsequent discussion) at Life Itself Research.

Summary

When thinking about how to do the most good, or best to ‘contribute to the world’, we face massive uncertainties which are hard to integrate with the formal decision-theoretic approaches typically used in Effective Altruism.

I show how recent work in the cognitive science of rationality - in particular John Vervaeke’s work on the notion of wisdom as integrating formal rationality and relevance realisation - offers insight here, and suggests a more integral approach he calls ‘Wise Altruism’.