EV - 249 What We Owe The Future with Will MacAskill
Embrace The Void
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Population Ethics - Is There a Future Population on Earth?
We need to take into account both the probability of a having a certain impact and its magnitude. And so i don't think we need certainty that a future people are going to exist in the same way is am you know, if i give you a drug and it has a 50 50 chance of killing you, well, i still shouldn't give you that drug. Even if it's a ten per cent chance of kill you, i shouldn't giveyou that drug. Or at least, can we makeuno the l y, the lives of whoever will exist.
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