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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Problem With Political Incentives

We have a politics that is almost by definition a machine of short termism. One thing that has to be a fairly high priority is to figure out how to engineer a system of political and economic incentives such that we more effortlessly take the future into account. I think it's going to be very hard to make major progress unless there's some significant cultural change.

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