I did a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rutgers University, where I wrote a dissertation...on the importance of shaping the distant future and helped launch the Centre for Effective Altruism."

Interesting. What does that dissertation say? 🤔

“Saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects than saving & improving lives in rich countries."

Why? Richer countries have substantially more innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive....

By ordinary standards—at least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards—saving and improving lives in rich countries is about equally as important...as saving & improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal"

Indeed.