
Danyl McLauchlan gives a lecture on the history of effective altruism and what it means to be good.
There was a reading list. I didn’t write it down.
Mike Joy and Nathan Surendran give a lecture on Biophysical Economics for the IGPS.
Apparently our non-renewal use is like having 147 slaves each. And if you think renewables are going to save us, you need to consider that we currently need the non-renewables to make things that will capture solar and wind energy.
Jan O. Jonsson and Carina Mood presented research about generational income inequality. Despite all income brackets on the whole doing better than their parents, if we have richer parents we are more likely to do better out of our education in terms of income. However, when comparing Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. (Sweden having much lower correlation between parental/child income and the U.S. and U.K. having a bigger gap), it seemed that the bigger gap was not attributable to education, and instead was a direct result of the income itself. Unfortunately this means that we can’t just fix the education system advantage to reduce inequality but well done Sweden on having an education system, according to the figures, that is more likely to increase income mobility.