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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 the Future Really Important?

Mcascell: What do you think someone who's kind of agnostic about these questions ought to think and do? Andi, there's still a very strong argument that actually, exitential risk is one of the most pressing issues of our time. If we let the world be destroyed, ah, then we lose all this option value. There's no coming back from that. I but i, if we, if we preserve it, then we may find out more information about about the value of humanity. We may find tat it's particularly important. But we need to a, ah, preserved humanity to bein these chances to really, a lead to this great future.

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