As global events spin us into anxious helplessness, effective altruism offers a solution
magine you’re travelling through a conflict zone. During a long bus ride, there’s an explosion, and the bus flips over. When you regain consciousness, you find yourself in the midst of chaos. Your travel companion is trapped under the wheels, looking into your eyes and begging for help. A few metres away, an injured child screams in pain. At the same time, you hear the ticking of another explosive device, but you don’t know where it is, or when it’ll go off. In the distance, you hear gunshots.
There are any number of people who need your help right now. Instead of a travelling companion trapped under a bus in front of you, there is the homeless woman who lives a few miles away. There is a child screaming in pain, but she’s in Mozambique, dying of malaria. Rather than a ticking bomb, we have an increasing risk of global catastrophe from extreme climate change, or misaligned AI, or the next pandemic. These are just some of the problems that face you.
We should work on the highest-priority problems, and accept that we simply won’t be able to do everything
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