AAP Bonus Episode: How Can Antinatalists Do The Most Good?

The Antinatalist Advocacy Podcast

It's our first ever AAP bonus episode! It's a recording from the first discussion John and Lawrence had on the Lawrence Anton Youtube channel in November 2022 on how antinatalists can do the most good. Back then John hadn't yet splashed out on a microphone, so if you can suffer through the low-quality audio, enjoy!

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
03:02 How John became an antinatalist
09:36 Brief into to Effective Altruism (EA)
14:03 The link between antinatalism and EA
16:52 What antinatalists can learn from EA's successes
22:41 What antinatalists can learn from EA's challenges
27:52 Reluctant longtermism
34:38 The four cause areas of antinatalist activism
49:49 People working in this space
53:00 Possible objections from the antinatalist community
1:02:42 Possible objections from the EA community
1:10:45 How academia might react to antinatalist activism
1:17:30 Tangible steps to have an impact
1:20:21 Final thoughts
1:24:24 Outro

ANTINATALIST ADVOCACY

Newsletter: https://antinatalistadvocacy.org/newsletter

Website: https://antinatalistadvocacy.org/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AntinatalistAdvocacy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AN_advocacy

Instagram: https://instagram.com/an_advocacy

Check out the links below!

• Give Well: https://www.givewell.org
• 80,000 Hours: https://80000hours.org
• Animal Charity Evaluators: https://animalcharityevaluators.org
• Centre for Reducing Suffering: https://centerforreducingsuffering.org
• Critique of Macaskill’s ‘Is it good to make happy people?’ | Minus Vinding (Article): https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vZ4kB8gpvkfHLfz8d/critique-of-macaskill-s-is-it-good-to-make-happy-people
• Strategic Considerations for Moral Antinatalists | Brian Tomasik (Article): https://reducing-suffering.org/strategic-considerations-moral-antinatalists/
• Famine, Affluence & Procreation | David Benatar (Article): https://r.jordan.im/download/natalism/benatar2020.pdf