#38 - Yew-Kwang Ng on anticipating effective altruism decades ago & how to make a much happier world

<p>Will people who think carefully about how to maximize welfare eventually converge on the same views?</p><p> The effective altruism community has spent a lot of time over the past 10 years debating how best to increase happiness and reduce suffering, and gradually narrowed in on the world’s poorest people, all animals capable of suffering, and future generations.</p><p> Yew-Kwang Ng, Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, was independently working on this exact question since the 70s. Many of his conclusions have ended up foreshadowing what is now conventional wisdom within effective altruism - thou...