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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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Is There a Substantial Chance of Humanity Being Extinct?

There's a sense in which things have gotten a lot better over the last few hundred years. But there's also a sense that our humanity's situation has become more precarious. I think it is pretty intuitive that if there's really a substantial chance of humanity's future being extinguished, and that something may be made to talk about later as to whether there really is. It might drive us even further than that. It might it might be the end of humanity itself.

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