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#68 - Will MacAskill on the paralysis argument, whether we're at the hinge of history, & his new priorities

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Long Termism - What's the Best Thing?

There's an important distinction between axiological long termism and diontic long termism. Exeology is about, like, what things are good; deontology is about the rightness of actions. In some cases you might think, oh, this really does make a difference. So risk of ersion is one case, i think it's quite intuitive. Or certainly s people say, where, let’s sayyou're deciding between funding some eccidential risk deduction intervention or funding some global health programme. You might think, well, i know that i can do some amount of good when funding the global health programme,. whereas this esdential risk thing seems very uncertain

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