Will appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah yesterday (2022-09-27). This is, to my knowledge, the most prominent US television show to feature an EA guest. He primarily discusses ideas of most impactful charities, billionaire donors, and obligations to future people using the phrase "effective altruism" a bunch of times.
It was neat to see these ideas in a different context and I thought it went really well!
I think this went really well, although MacAskill could make another point, which I'm not sure why he chose not to - which is that the people living paycheck to paycheck, not being sure where their rent will come from, aren't really expected to do these things. That these are the obligations of people in stable lives, and that those who don't yet have stability should focus on obtaining it for themselves first.
>My sense is that the original, OG EAs, were hard core and took the idea of frugality very seriously
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