- Lived:
- Born 1979, Melbourne, Australia · works in Oxford, England
- Tradition:
- Contemporary moral philosophy; effective altruism and the ethics of humanity's long-term future
- The Big Idea:
- Doing good is partly a matter of arithmetic — and when you do the arithmetic honestly, two things jump out: your money can do astonishing amounts of good for strangers, and humanity is gambling its entire future on this century.
- If you remember one thing:
- He pledged away most of his lifetime income to effective charities, then wrote the book arguing that safeguarding humanity from extinction is the great neglected task of our age.