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William MacAskill on Longtermism

Philosophy Bites

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Are We Above the Critical Level?

I'm just trying to get a firmer grip on what kind of quality of life it's required for this to be a good thing to bring this life into existence. I mentioned at the beginning of the eight billion lives that we currently have on the planet. How many of those do you think are above the threshold roughly? Yeah, and again, it's a great question and the sort of thing that moral philosophy is often not very well equipped to deal with.

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