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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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The Long Term Future of Humanity

There are ways of locking in a terrible outcome that the people of the future can't do anything to recover from. A, for example, a perpetual global totalitarianism where some stable system of insuring dictatorial rule is set up. And we might deliberately lock ourselves into a set of values which stop us producing most of the value we could have created.

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