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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Prioritizing the Future

I think people's moral intuitions begin to fall apart when you're talking about hypothetical billions and trillions of a future humanity that may thrive or not even exist depending on how we play our cards at this moment. If it were the case that the argument for concern and serious concern about how we might impact future generations, rested on these vanishingly small probabilities of enormous amounts of value, then I wouldn't be writing this book. And I don't think it does.

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