The 5 Strong Reasons Why Wilma Cascals Thesis Doesn't Go Through

The most prominent idea that long termists have come up with for increasing the welfare of future people is to reduce what they call existential risk. There's been natural risks of human extinction, things like asteroids that could potentially wipe us out as they have many other species. With humanity's increasing power over time and a rise of technological power, we reached this stage where we may have the power to destroy ourselves. This is something where, you know, I now think that their risk is high enough that this century it's about one in six. We can reasonably hope to influence whether future people exist and how good or bad their lives will be. So there you have it, five strong reasons why Wil