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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
148
The Bioethicists are (Mostly) Alright
Devin Kalish
11mo
61
107
Why the expected numbers of farmed animals in the far future might be huge
Fai
9mo
22
105
The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved
Fods12
2y
15
103
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
24
94
"Disappointing Futures" Might Be As Important As Existential Risks
MichaelDickens
2y
18
94
Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny
Holden Karnofsky
1y
32
89
Why Charities Usually Don't Differ Astronomically in Expected Cost-Effectiveness
Brian_Tomasik
5y
7
86
Crucial questions for longtermists
MichaelA
2y
17
77
Radio Bostrom: Audio narrations of papers by Nick Bostrom
peterhartree
4mo
5
76
Things usually end slowly
OllieBase
6mo
14
73
Robin Hanson on the Long Reflection
Stefan_Schubert
1y
30
70
Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
3
68
Hits-based Giving
Holden Karnofsky
6y
2
63
Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox
Lukas_Finnveden
3y
4
481
"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
8mo
83
264
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
243
Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism
ab
1y
32
186
Why I am probably not a longtermist
Denise_Melchin
1y
48
134
There's Lots More To Do
Jeff Kaufman
3y
30
130
Response to Torres’ ‘The Case Against Longtermism’
HaydnBelfield
1y
77
129
The Future Might Not Be So Great
Jacy
5mo
118
126
Concerns with the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill
Larks
9mo
38
124
'Longtermism'
William_MacAskill
3y
58
111
Open Philanthropy Shallow Investigation: Civil Conflict Reduction
Lauren Gilbert
8mo
12
109
Future Matters #0: Space governance, future-proof ethics, and the launch of the Future Fund
Pablo
9mo
20
106
Summarizing the comments on William MacAskill's NYT opinion piece on longtermism
West
3mo
11
104
Towards a Weaker Longtermism
Davidmanheim
1y
73
101
On future people, looking back at 21st century longtermism
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
13