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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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Is There a Future for Humanity?

My guess is that we're not going to continue to have farmed animals for much longer, as long as humanity continues. There may be ways of doing some minor genetic engineering, which means that they feel less pain. And maybe we'll have abilities do actually intervene and improve the lot of of the natural world. But that is a grand project, which is probably on the scale of interplanetary settlement or something like that.

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