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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
11
Beyond a better world
Davidmanheim
6d
5
52
The sense of a start
Gavin
2mo
0
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Radio Bostrom: Audio narrations of papers by Nick Bostrom
peterhartree
4mo
5
55
An Audio Introduction to Nick Bostrom
peterhartree
3mo
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3
Can "sustainability" help us safeguard the future?
simonfriederich
26d
1
29
Australians are pessimistic about longterm future (n=1050)
Oscar Delaney
2mo
3
55
Longtermism, risk, and extinction
Richard Pettigrew
4mo
12
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Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
24
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Things usually end slowly
OllieBase
6mo
14
148
The Bioethicists are (Mostly) Alright
Devin Kalish
11mo
61
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Resilience & Biodiversity
emwalz
4mo
9
38
โExistential Riskโ is badly named and leads to narrow focus on astronomical waste
freedomandutility
4mo
2
27
A Pin and a Balloon: Anthropic Fragility Increases Chances of Runaway Global Warming
turchin
3mo
25
107
Why the expected numbers of farmed animals in the far future might be huge
Fai
9mo
22
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Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
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"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
8mo
83
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Future people might not exist
Indra Gesink
20d
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Longtermist terminology has biasing assumptions
Arepo
1mo
13
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Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?
Maxwell Tabarrok
2mo
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58
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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Summarizing the comments on William MacAskill's NYT opinion piece on longtermism
West
3mo
11
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Optimism, AI risk, and EA blind spots
Justis
2mo
22
31
A proposed hierarchy of longtermist concepts
Arepo
1mo
13
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[edited] Inequality is a (small) problem for EA and economic growth
Karthik Tadepalli
4mo
28
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In Defence of Temporal Discounting in Longtermist Ethics
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1mo
4
129
The Future Might Not Be So Great
Jacy
5mo
118
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Large-scale International Educational Migration: A Shallow Investigation
Johannes Haushofer
4mo
3
243
Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism
ab
1y
32