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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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Is There a Discount Rate?

i've never actually heard a description of the person affecting view that is clear enough that it makes a sense to me. It doesn't avoid that itis not incredibly vague in order to avoid directly contradicting itself. Another line of objections that i encounter is that we shouldn't be too concerned about future generations, because we should have a high discount rate on their or just on the feature in general. Have you heard that argument? I i haven't sen seen that in literature, but it's s what you get if you think about person affecting views a combined the kind of personal identity ideas that derick parford has. And so maybe he talks about this somewhere.

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