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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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People Affecting Views

Grea: The idea that we should be concerned with a raising the welfare of the current generation, but not a so much changing the number of people who exist in the future. Grea: Most common philosophical objection to this view is that it doesn't work for practical reasons. He says there's an extra rhetorical effect coming from the idea of being merely possible. And he argues that even those who support person affecting views also care about these merely possible people.

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