Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity
80,000 Hours Podcast
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The Universe Is Expanding
We could just plateau in the amount of good that we're generating and stay there for billions of years. Alternatively, perhaps having kind of secured access to all that material, we could just wade around then use all those resources more abruptly at some kind of ideal later time. But either way, you can kind of see that it's pretty close to irrelevant how fast we get there. The universe is expanding. A cosmological expansion means that the accessible universe is shrinking by a roughly a brillionth each year. So so growth delayed a means kind of mass and energy denied to or future generations. This doesn't seem to be much ov much of rush in kin of practical human terms given
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