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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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Are There Any Practical Ways to Preserve Humanity?

I'm such that avoiding it is a opportunity, that you only get this once a to create a huge amount of benefit. And so i in order to have this accidental hope sin areas, it wouldn't be enough that there was some really clever thing we could do... It would have to be the casetat. If we didn't do it now, then there was no other opportunity to get it in order to really be the reverse. So very little thought has gone into this. But maybe if if people thought about it for, you know, more than an hour, perhaps, perhaps more than a year, they'll find something there and might be ougt to make some progress

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