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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

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Nuclear Weapons

Can people realistically position themselves to be in the right place at the right time? Yes, good question. The cases that history lets us judge as to the kind of clearest impact of individuals are cases where they 're at the last possible moment before a disaster. And since i think a lot of these threats are going to come from a radical new technologies that we invent, i think there's a lot, of a lot of potential there.

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