Hi, friends!
Hi, Liam
Hi! we're here with...
Who are you?
I'm Sindy Li Qian.
My Chinese name is Li Qian.
We know each other because we both are in the same...
We both believe in the same ideology, right?
- Right!
This ideology is called effective altruism.
The Chinese name is rather "Youxiao lita zhuyi"
- Yes
So what is effective altruism?
Effective altruism is about helping the world, helping society.
Contributing effectively to the world, but...
The first principle is simply being altruistic, but the second very important principle is
being effective about it.
Because a lot of people want to help others, and you can implement a lot of interventions, but...
not all of them are effective. So we use science, we use facts to figure out how to best help others.
Yeah, I, um... when I was young, I was always interested in helping others.
But I thought... I saw others, I saw my friends helping their friends, but... not... not ve--- not so effective.
So I felt that there must be some sort of ideology.
So maybe four years ago, I heard the name effective altruism.
And um... I started to get interested in EA.
So I... we live in San Francisco, and in San Francisco, there are a lot of effective altruists.
So last year I went to a bunch of... well, some effective altruism events, met a lot of people...
So.. yes. So... you, you, you, you want to create an effective altruism group, right?
Yes, in San Francisco, for the past one or two years, there haven't been any effective altruism events.
But we have a bunch of people here that are interested in effective altruism.
There are also a bunch of EA-adjacent organizations, like GiveWell, Open Philantrophy, Center for Effective Altruism
as well as some research organizations. There's all these people here, so we want to start these events again.
So I also have my own personal project talk 10 Months to 10%. You know, right?
Yes, I've heard of it.
So, my own project is... I want to give 10 percent of my salary to like... [effective... effective] groups.
Effective charities.
Yes. Effective... what did you say?
Charities.
Effective charities.
So every month I'm choosing a company and I... I... recommend!
I recommend for my friends, they should give their money with me
in this... yeah.
Very cool. Very cool.
Haha, what do you think?!
Very cool.
So which charities are you choosing?
This month?
I'm choosing....
Against Malaria Foundation.
So it's a... most of it is in Africa.
So they... this is really complicated in Chinese!
They buy bed... [bednets].
Bednets.
The wen is from wenzi. Mosquito.
Mosquitoes are bad.
We should kill all the mosquitoes.
So I think they're a very good company.
Yeah... that's...
OK! If our fans are interested in EA, what websites should they go to?
They should go to Google and search effective altruism.
The official effective altruism website has some introductory concepts.
If you're interested in international development, giving money to very poor people
GiveWell is a very good organization. You can look at their recommendations.
And if you're interested in using your career to help people, there's a site called 80,000 Hours. Take a look on Google.
BUT THE BEST SITE IS LIAMROSEN.COM!
- Yes
OK. We should finish, but thank you to Sindy for giving me this...
...shirt? What is this?
[Sweater].
- That's a [sweatshirt]. I don't know how to say it.
Thank you Sindy for giving me this [sweatshirt], and thank you, and thank you guys!
- Thanks!
