
#44 - Longtermism Revisited: What We Owe the Future
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What I Liked About the Book Is That It's Not a Pro Human Pro Progress
There's like zero traces of wokeism in it, which I just thought was nice Yeah, just quite refreshing. He pushed back strongly on the climate movements um Encouragement to people for people to not have children. Just is fairly a got pinker style optimism. At the end he gave some really great career advice and his career advice was basically to treat your career like an experiment. The global response to covid was obviously there was some regional variation Right like south korea comes to mind right but yeah,. But if you you know consider the massive space of possible responses to something like covid and then how little of that space was inhabited by by most countries Even when other stuff seems like
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