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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
137
The Bioethicists are (Mostly) Alright
Devin Kalish
11mo
61
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
90
The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved
Fods12
2y
15
83
Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny
Holden Karnofsky
1y
32
81
Crucial questions for longtermists
MichaelA
2y
17
77
Why Charities Usually Don't Differ Astronomically in Expected Cost-Effectiveness
Brian_Tomasik
5y
7
73
"Disappointing Futures" Might Be As Important As Existential Risks
MichaelDickens
2y
18
73
Robin Hanson on the Long Reflection
Stefan_Schubert
1y
30
72
Things usually end slowly
OllieBase
6mo
14
70
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
61
Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
3
561
"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
8mo
83
238
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
228
Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism
ab
1y
32
190
Why I am probably not a longtermist
Denise_Melchin
1y
48
183
The Future Might Not Be So Great
Jacy
5mo
118
149
'Longtermism'
William_MacAskill
3y
58
134
Response to Torres’ ‘The Case Against Longtermism’
HaydnBelfield
1y
77
128
There's Lots More To Do
Jeff Kaufman
3y
30
114
Towards a Weaker Longtermism
Davidmanheim
1y
73
109
[edited] Inequality is a (small) problem for EA and economic growth
Karthik Tadepalli
4mo
28
108
The AI Messiah
ryancbriggs
7mo
40
99
Open Philanthropy Shallow Investigation: Civil Conflict Reduction
Lauren Gilbert
8mo
12
95
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