Making sense of long-term indirect effects | Robert Wiblin | EA Global: San Francisco 2016

Robert Wiblin thinks through what impacts different projects might have in ten, a hundred or even thousands of years' time, and what this implies for what problems the effective altruism community might be neglecting.

Rob won a scholarship to study genetics and economics at the Australian National University, graduating top of his class and being named Young Alumnus of the Year in 2015. He then worked as a research economist in various Australian Government agencies, before moving to the UK to work at CEA, where he worked as Research Director and Executive Director before moving to 80,000 Hours. He was also a founding board member of Animal Charity Evaluators and a member of the WEF's Young Global Shapers Community.

[rjelavic]

Great talk but the audio quality is really terrible.

[LiborSupcik]

Well done. Some minuses : Form= >horrid audio + some prosody [question marks ending sentences] /
:Content => his 'indirect effects' are called externalities elsewhere/ 'value' is not defined but preperceived anthropocentricaly == from short term view i.e. he does not acknowledge or know that the next generations wont even clean their asses with their education and money without biodiversity . We can recover? Who? / probably excess focus on GDP growth?/