TEDxZurich: Watch one of our authors on the live stream! Michael Moor – Impact through Rationality tedxzurich/ «We all had those childhood dreams of making the world a better place, didn’t we? So why is it that a lot of people smile at the idea? Some say it is idealistic or even naïve; others say it is too trivial or vague to serve as a goal in life. But how come most of us don’t even bother trying when they are grown up? And how could making the world a better – or indeed a less bad – place be a trivial matter? Granted, it is hard to say what exactly it means to have a positive impact, and there are many different notions of what counts as positive. What’s uncontroversial, though, is that the reduction of involuntary suffering is a very positive, non-trivial and urgent matter indeed. I am going to talk about how the application of rationality, critical thinking and scientific approaches can help us figure out how to have the greatest positive impact on the world. And I hope that you will come to share my enthusiasm for that goal.»
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:40:38 +0000
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