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Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

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Transhumanism and the Law of Reflection

Some argue that humanity as a whole should pursue a two-step plan. The first is to reach a state of existential security, which just means focusing on mitigating existential risk. And then once we get there, we can have this multi-century or even multi-millennium period they call the law of reflection. That's when we sit back and try to figure out what values we want to guide the next trillions of years of future human evolution.

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