#42 – Habiba Islam on Planning a High-Impact Career and Ambitious Altruism
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The Future of Human Rights
The concept of rights and human rights is like maybe you might point to this as an example of a success of kind of moral philosophy or political philosophy. There's actually just recently there's been a private members bill by Lord Bird in the UK which I believe has just been passed in the house of law. Now since a lot of long-termist inspired work revolves around trying to reduce the chance the some catastrophe means that people don't get to exist then yeah I'm curious how you think about how kind of rights and justice framing slot into the importance of reducing existential risks. So it feels very like this bites pretty hard when you're thinking about the possibility of us creating like dystopian scenarios for future
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