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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Challenge of Avoiding Catastrophes

The only thing I can imagine is some catastrophe of the sort that you have begun sketching out, right? Some pandemic, some asteroid impact, some nuclear war. So if we successfully avoid the worst possible outcome for ourselves and our children and our grandchildren, the future people we're talking about are guaranteed to exist. It's not, in fact, in question. And the only thing that would put it in question is some horrific outcome that we are responsible for seeing and avoiding.

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