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Two: Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Is There a Future for Humanity?

If we want to predict what the future will be like, one our option will be to look at the past and see what that has been like general. The largest group of beings in the world to day, and certainly throughout history, has been our wild animals. There are definitely more wild mammals than there are humans - but they're generally very small. It's the smallest ones that produce most of these population numbers. We might be able to actually make the natural world better in thisthiss regard.

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