{"id":154,"date":"2014-06-03T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=154"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:02:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:02:53","slug":"on-making-a-difference-and-choosing-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/on-making-a-difference-and-choosing-a-career\/","title":{"rendered":"On Making a Difference and Choosing a Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William MacAskill\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Gabriel Wollner<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2500\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 3 June 2014, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/centreforeffectivealtruism.org\/team\/\"><strong>William MacAskill<\/strong><\/a>, Research Associate, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford and President of\u00a0<em>80,000 Hours<\/em>\u00a0ethical career advisory service<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-GabrielWollner.aspx\"><strong>Gabriel Wollner<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>How can an individual do the most good in their lifetime? Should they work for a non-profit organization in Africa? Should they go into politics? Or should they go into the City, and try to earn as much as they can so that they can donate it to good causes? Philosopher and founder of the ethical career advisory service \u201880,000 hours\u2019\u00a0<strong>William MacAskill<\/strong>\u00a0discussed questions of effective altruism and how to use one\u2019s life to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William MacAskill\/\u00a0Gabriel Wollner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[19],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ethics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11930,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/11930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}