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ETHICS · RATIONALITY · IMPACT
Many of us want to "change the world." What on earth does that mean? What does it look like?
There's no more important time to think critically than when figuring out what sort of life we want to lead. And there's no better place to start thinking about this than college.
Our mission is to help Columbia students work together to rigorously examine what it would look like to really make an impact. We seek to empower our members to figure out how they want to change the world, then to use their talents and resources to go do it.
We believe in seeking the good life through wrestling with the wicked problem of how to do good better. Through challenging our deepest beliefs. Through the dual pursuit of intellectual excellence and immense impact.
Columbia students go on to make history. Let's do it well.
Here are a few of the many questions we're interested in:
Can we quantify good? How much good can we do per dollar?
What are the "low-hanging fruits" of making an impact? In other words, where can we do a lot of good without much effort?
Are people who live across the world as deserving of our help as people who live in our city, state, or country?
Which charities are the most effective? How much more effective than typical charities are they? What makes them so effective?
Is there anything to be gained, i.e. spiritual fulfillment, through a deep embrace of altruism? Or is it purely self-sacrificing?
Do increasing industrial, computational, and biotechnological power put us at risk of global catastrophe, or even extinction, in the next ~100 years? If so, what should we do?
Could this same increase in technological power instead let us build the ideal civilization? What should this civilization look like?
As people who will likely be in the top 1% of global income soon after graduating, what duty (if any) do we owe the rest of the world?
Can animals suffer? If they do, what would it look like to behave accordingly?
Do future generations deserve the same moral consideration we give to ourselves?
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