A Message on Caring – Part 6

This, of course, leads us to the question of “What the hell do you do, then?”

And I don’t really know yet. (Though I’ll plug the Giving What We Can pledge, GiveWell, MIRI, and The Future of Humanity Institute as a good start.)

I think that at least part of it comes from a certain sort of desperate perspective. It’s not enough to think you should change the world — you also need the sort of desperation that comes from realizing that you would dedicate your entire life to solving the world’s 100th biggest problem if you could, but you can’t, because there are 99 bigger problems you have to address first.

I’m not trying to guilt you into giving more money away — becoming a philanthropist is really, really hard. (If you’re already a philanthropist, then you have my respect and my affection.) First it requires you to have money, which is uncommon, and then it requires you to throw that money at distant, invisible problems, which is not an easy sell to a human brain. Akrasia is a formidable enemy. And more importantly, guilt doesn’t seem like a good long-term motivator: If you want to join the ranks of people saving the world, I would rather you join them proudly. There are many trials and tribulations ahead, and we’d do better to face them with our heads held high.

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