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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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Colonizing Other Planets Isn't a Good Solution

I'm very excited about our spreading beyond earth in the he long term future, and i think that a lot of humanity's destiny is ultimately in the heavens above us. But i don't see it particularly as a good solution to these risks. Having multiple planets a helps a lot with all the uncorrelated types of risks. So things that could go wrong ar, you know, on one planet mean that you could always repopulate that planet, or something with the other people who are elsewhere. And so merely having a galaxy of worlds a wouldn't for all that much protection from these things. It may also be, we tend to forget this, that there there are periods like now

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