Jonah Wilberg on Wise Altruism
Join us for the Life Itself Community Research Call #13. Jonah Wilberg shares his research on how the cognitive science of wisdom can serve an expanded notion of Effective Altruism.
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About the call
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.
Jonah shows 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’.
This talk is an accessible summary of Jonah’s recent substack post, which offers a more in-depth view:
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