Saturday afternoon there was a talk by some senior research analysts at GiveWell, which researches global development charities. And it was impossible to walk away from some of the talks without being impressed. ![]() The official conference effectiveness level was “very”. The official conference interaction style was “earnest”. The official conference theme was “Doing Good Together”. The lake-fringed monumental neoclassical architecture represents ‘utilitiarian distribution of limited resources’ This year it was in the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and I got a chance to check it out. They have an annual global conference to touch base and discuss strategy. Philosopher William MacAskill described it as “doing for the pursuit of good what the Scientific Revolution did for the pursuit of truth”. And that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil.Įffective altruism is the movement devoted to finding the highest-impact ways to help other people and the world. ![]() ![]() Maybe not, in the long run – but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world….There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of.
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