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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Compounding

Even just the slightest deflection of trajectory now potentially has massive implications, you know, 20, 30, 40 years from now. I mean, my colleague Toby Orden is a wonderful book The Phesibus and it suggests that our technology is advancing more rapidly than our wisdom. And what we're trying to do is accelerate wisdom. We're trying to make us a little bit wiser,. You know, there's most people fall into one of two camps. Some technologies are just like anesthetic. Let's have more of these unashamedly good technologies," he says.

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