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Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Importance of the Long-Term Impact of Humanity

It sounds like you're suggesting perhaps we should listen a little more and uh offer aphorisms a little less. You've also argued that the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else. By which you're talking about the moral value of our actions more than a hundred years into the future. That's a hard notion to get your head around to think about having an impact after you're dead hmm yeah i guess i i don't find it hard to think about maybe this has become very intuitive to me but basically if um humanity could just continue existing for hundreds thousands possibly millions of years or you know humanity or or its successors there's going to be so many more

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