Embrace The Void

EV - 249 What We Owe The Future with Will MacAskill

Aug 19, 2022

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I'm Very Nervous That We Are Going to Continue to See Ramping Up of Paranoia

02:24

Is There a Bottleneck in the Future?

03:24

Ethics in Vaccines

03:31

Introduction

3min

Long Termism

2min

Do You Think There Are Some Overlaps Between Pro Life and Potential Persons?

3min

Population Ethics - Is There a Future Population on Earth?

3min

Is Decarbonization a Base Line?

4min

Effective Altruism, Centring Decarbonization, Is the Most Important?

2min

Is That a Fair Trade?

4min

Is That the Highest of the Lik Extinction Risk?

3min

Is There a Bottleneck?

3min

10.

Is There a Bottleneck in the Future?

3min

11.

I'm Very Nervous That We Are Going to Continue to See Ramping Up of Paranoia

2min

12.

I'm Not Sure How We Yet Got Sad Go Yet

4min

13.

Ethics in Vaccines

4min

14.

Consenting

2min

15.

I've Been Talking About an Engineered Pandemic for Years. Manoeuvre

4min

16.

You Win That Rat. I Give Yo That Oney.

3min

17.

Do You Think It's Worth Pulling the Trigger on That Lock In?

2min

18.

Is There a Risk of Lockin?

2min

19.

Long Termism and the Risk Pill

4min

20.

Is It Better to Not Be a Billionaire Anymore?

3min

21.

The Enlightening Round

2min

22.

What's Real?

2min

23.

The Last Answers

2min

My guest this week is Will MacAskill, an associate professor in philosophy and research fellow at the global priorities institute at the University of Oxford. Will is one of the founders of the effective altruism and 80,000 hours, as well as a proponent of longtermism. His new book is “What we owe the future”. We discuss developments in longtermism and challenges like being co-opted or leading to undervaluing of present persons.

Convocation: MacAskill

What We Owe the Future: https://www.amazon.com/What-Owe-Future-William-MacAskill-ebook/dp/B09N3D7QSQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Music by GW Rodriguez

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Recent appearances: Had several recent appearances you should check out!

Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/

other discussions of that conference:

I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/