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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Is the Long Reflection a Political Dialogue?

The long reflection, which could be as long as it needs to be, is the only time you can work on securing the future. And i do think that often you don't want to be taking this perspective of humanity. I think it's neglected and has been done very rarely, but certainly shold be done all the time. People might also just be so radically uncertain about the future that they feel like it would be unduly optimistic to think about these good scenarios when it could get so bad.

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