Sam Bankman-Fried was a junior at MIT when he met Will McCaskill, the poster boy for effective altruism. The Oxford grad student asked Sam: Would you rather have my blood or my money? POMP's Caleb Bissinger and Rufus Griskam talk about this provocative question on their next big idea podcast.
If the human race lasts as long as a typical mammalian species and our population continues at its current size, then there are 80 trillion people yet to come. Oxford philosophy professor William MacAskill says it's up to us to protect them.
In his bold new book, "What We Owe the Future," MacAskill makes a case for longtermism. He believes that how long we survive as a species may depend on the actions we take now.
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