William MacAskill Explains What We Owe the Future

In What We Owe The Future, philosopher #WilliamMacAskill argues for #longtermism, that idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. From this perspective, it’s not enough to reverse #climatechange or avert the next #pandemic. We must ensure that #civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human.

[kidanemhretenate]

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[gabordobos]

How is this different from Toby Ord's The Precipice from two years ago?

[jayqael]

Man is a creature of the (living) soil, a child of nature; no matter how earnestly he may try to escape from the land, in the last reckoning he is certain to fail. “Dust you are and to dust shall you return” is literally true of all mankind. The basic struggle of man was, and is, and ever shall be, for land…The land-man ratio underlies all social civilization…Human society is controlled be a law which decrees that the population must vary directly in accordance with the land arts and inversely with a given standard of living. UB 68:6
Think on that...

[FabioVur]

La filosofia del faccio il cazzo che mi pare.

[hugomacr]

And what about a resource-based economy?

[CDoggC]

technology is the #time 'machine', #electricity pyramidal warning ⚠🔀✝⚠☦⚠✝🔀⚠