William MacAskill
6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 11, 2018 by William MacAskill · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Jul 11, 2018
MacAskill pledges over half of his lifetime earnings to charity
“I thought about how much money I needed to live on over the course of my life, and I decided, even as an academic, where I'm not going to earn as much as perhaps I could have done, I'm still going to earn much more than I need to be happy, and so what I did wa…”
Jul 11, 2018 neutral
MacAskill: Most people's passions lie in hyper-competitive fields like arts and sports
“When you look at what people are actually passionate about, the vast majority tend to be passionate about things where it's extremely hard to have a promising career. So that's the arts, that's music, that's sport, and that's not a coincidence.”
Jul 11, 2018 positive
Jul 11, 2018 neutral
Jul 11, 2018
MacAskill: Equal Disagreement With Smart Peers Demands Ambivalence
“If, I believe something, and I meet someone who I think is just as smart and just as well reasoned in this case as me, and they believe the opposite. Well, then I just become ambivalent, because this person's as likely to be right as I am.”