#42 – Habiba Islam on Planning a High-Impact Career and Ambitious Altruism
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The Importance of Thinking About Humanity
One of the analogies I really like from that book is thinking about humanity as something like a kind of a person who is presumably quite early on in their life. Maybe they've done some things already which they have come to regret. And even though in some sense you can't reverse certain kinds of harms, maybe the best thing to do is really just to get your right together and do as much good going forwards as you can. So if the analogy carries over then that makes a lot of sense to me. Well, these kinds of like framings that I think Toby has in the precipice could plausibly speak more to people who are inclined to feel like it's actually intrinsically good for
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