Explain It to Me

Who decides how we’ll save the future?

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Sep 13, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
Long Termism
02:48 • 2min
3
Is There Anything Beyond That That Will Benefit Future Generations?
04:37 • 2min
4
Risks to the Survival of Civilization
06:51 • 2min
5
Do You Think We Should Save the Drowning Child?
09:03 • 2min
6
The Ends Do Not Always Justify the Means
10:55 • 2min
7
The Drowning Child Thought Experiment of Peter Singer
12:58 • 2min
8
Is That Not What It Just Comes Down To?
14:30 • 2min
9
Are We Having a Ranked Priordization?
16:25 • 2min
10
What Do You Do When You're Dealing With Uncertainty?
18:29 • 2min
11
Getting Better Probability Estimates for Uncertainty
20:26 • 2min
12
The Fanaticism Objection to Long Termism
22:33 • 2min
13
The Kana Theorem
24:20 • 2min
14
Are Expected Value Paradoxes Failing Us?
26:42 • 2min
15
Is There a Low Hanging Fruit?
28:31 • 4min
16
The Ethics of Long Termism
32:16 • 2min
17
Are You Happy With, Like, Mitigating Extinction Risk?
34:01 • 4min
18
Are We Going to Make Mars Livable?
37:50 • 2min
19
What Is the Most Important Century Ever?
40:05 • 3min
20
Is There a Risk to Climbing?
43:07 • 2min
21
Slowing Down Technology Is a Good Idea
44:40 • 3min
22
The Next Big Thing in Gaming?
47:18 • 3min
23
What Do You Think About the Future of Humanity?
49:55 • 2min
24
Is Ai the Key to a Better Future?
52:20 • 3min
25
Is There a World View Diversification?
55:44 • 2min
26
Is There One Source of Value?
57:21 • 2min
27
The Global Allocation of the Sources
58:57 • 3min
28
Long Termism and Deliberative Decision Making
01:01:32 • 2min
29
Donations and Career Choice
01:03:48 • 3min