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Will MacAskill on Creating Lasting Change
The Daily Stoic
You're Gonna Be Good Too
Al-Thyan: Marcus Aurelius said to focus on what you can do now and not think about that at all. He's basically saying that like these conquerors who would try to achieve enormous things for the sake of being remembered by history they were chasing something that didn't really matter because they weren't around to enjoy it right. But I mean of all the scientists in the past for which modern science builds on how many do we remember what flexion? And he says this is an insight that was appreciated by Seneca. It's actually my colleague Toby Ord included this quote in the precipice. Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come when memory of us will have been
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