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Moral Philosopher Will MacAskill on What We Owe The Future

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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How Can We Impact the Long Term Future?

i devote two chapters of the book just to that question. i cannot think about it like extending humanity's life and versus increasing its quality of life. And i think, in particular, thei scenarios that, again, could occur the century, where society gets locked into a particular state,. with a particular ideology governing a particular set of valuesThat could persist forever. The date at which we have sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence as can act as agents themselves is this point of lockin for an extreme global totality. I think theres it that is really something that could persist indefinitely, not just an extremely long time, but maybe for ever.

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