Hilary Greaves - Population Ethics & Existential Risk

Hilary Greaves discusses effective altruism, population ethics and existential risk in this interview held between sessions at the Effective Altruism Global Melbourne confenrence in 2015

It deals with the special problems that arise when actions or policies cannot be said to affect individual persons but merely to substitute one group of people with another. Such problems usually only arise when our actions affect future generations.

Population ethics is especially important when making large-scale decisions like those regarding climate policy.

Apologies for the audio - the front microphone didn't record.

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