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Long-term future
Flourishing futures
Anthropics
Extraterrestrial intelligence
Trajectory change
Speeding up development
Transhumanism
Nick Bostrom
Conservation
Robin Hanson
Cryonics
Fermi paradox
133 posts
Longtermism
Criticism of effective altruist causes
Criticism of longtermism and existential risk studies
AI skepticism
Immigration reform
Peace and conflict studies
Nick Beckstead
7
Beyond a better world
Davidmanheim
6d
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The sense of a start
Gavin
2mo
0
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Longtermism, risk, and extinction
Richard Pettigrew
4mo
12
67
Radio Bostrom: Audio narrations of papers by Nick Bostrom
peterhartree
4mo
5
65
Resilience & Biodiversity
emwalz
4mo
9
31
Australians are pessimistic about longterm future (n=1050)
Oscar Delaney
2mo
3
26
A vision of the future (fictional short-story)
EffAlt
2mo
0
125
Why the expected numbers of farmed animals in the far future might be huge
Fai
9mo
22
97
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
24
72
Things usually end slowly
OllieBase
6mo
14
137
The Bioethicists are (Mostly) Alright
Devin Kalish
11mo
61
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An Audio Introduction to Nick Bostrom
peterhartree
3mo
2
15
Five Areas I Wish EAs Gave More Focus
Prometheus
1mo
13
29
A Pin and a Balloon: Anthropic Fragility Increases Chances of Runaway Global Warming
turchin
3mo
25
238
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
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"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
8mo
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Future people might not exist
Indra Gesink
20d
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Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?
Maxwell Tabarrok
2mo
23
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A Critique of Longtermism by Popular YouTube Science Channel, Sabine Hossenfelder: "Elon Musk & The Longtermists: What Is Their Plan?"
Ram Aditya
1mo
21
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Longtermist terminology has biasing assumptions
Arepo
1mo
13
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Optimism, AI risk, and EA blind spots
Justis
2mo
22
94
Summarizing the comments on William MacAskill's NYT opinion piece on longtermism
West
3mo
11
183
The Future Might Not Be So Great
Jacy
5mo
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[edited] Inequality is a (small) problem for EA and economic growth
Karthik Tadepalli
4mo
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A proposed hierarchy of longtermist concepts
Arepo
1mo
13
87
Large-scale International Educational Migration: A Shallow Investigation
Johannes Haushofer
4mo
3
41
Longtermists should take climate change very seriously
Nir Eyal
2mo
10
228
Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism
ab
1y
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