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EV - 249 What We Owe The Future with Will MacAskill

Embrace The Void

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Long Termism and the Risk Pill

i worry about long termism being taken up as a narrative device for rich individuals like elon musk and such, to focus on these big, syphi epic narratives. I think it can be inyouknow, it can help create new technology. But we really have some very pressing threats before we're able to do extensive space settlement. i'm in favour of am liberal democracy, however, in the colonial eo that was used for some really, pretty horrible things.

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