
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
I'm Not an Opponent of Technology, but It Was a Good Thing
i think almost everyone regards that as virtuous an a kind of, maybe maybe it's true, maybe it's not. Thees, this rising technology was associated with this amazing rise in prosperity and bringing evermore people out of poverty in absolute terms. And you can see that just by the fact that human life span basically doubled under this period of rapid technological improvement. So its produced huge benefits. But i don't know if you can really blame people that much, at least individuals, for not really having seen that it's exposing us to these risks which haven't yet eventuated.
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