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William MacAskill on Longtermism

Philosophy Bites

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Introduction

Will McCaskill is a prominent defender of the movement known as Long-termism. According to him, future people can't just as much as those alive today. There could be trillions of them before humans go extinct. Should we really worry about all of them?

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