What Should We Do?: Essays on Cause Prioritization and Fundamental Values

By Magnus Vinding

People who want to improve the world are, like everybody else, extremely biased. A prime example is that we tend to work on whatever cause we have stumbled upon so far, and to suppose, without deeper examination, that this cause is the most important one of all.

Cause prioritization is the attempt to go beyond this bias and to try to do better. It is the direct and systematic attempt to become more qualified about which causes we should prioritize the most.

This collection of essays aims to provide a rough framework for how we can think about cause prioritization, and provides suggestions about important causes and questions we should focus on and explore further.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Magnus Vinding
• Release date: Jan 31, 2017

Magnus Vinding

Magnus Vinding is the author of Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It (2015), Reflections on Intelligence (2016), You Are Them (2017), Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others? (2018), Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications (2020), Reasoned Politics (2022), and Essays on Suffering-Focused Ethics (2022).He is blogging at magnusvinding.com

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