An edition of What We Owe the Future
(2022)
What We Owe the Future
by William MacAskill
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Why we should organize our plans to include the well-being people 10s or even 100s of generations into the future, and how we should go about doing that kind of planning.
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altruism, civilization, eudaemonics, existential threats, forecasting, the future, long-term planning, Forecasting, Altruism, Human beings, Civilization, modernPeople
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What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View
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First Sentence
"Imagine living, in order of birth, through the life of every human being who has ever lived."
Table of Contents
I. The Long View
Introduction
1. The Case for Longtermism
2. You Can Shape the Course of History
II. Trajectory Changes
3. Moral Change
4. Value Lock-In
III. Safeguarding Civilisation
5. Extinction
6. Collapse
7. Stagnation
IV. Assessing the End of the World
8. Is It Good to Make Happy People?
9. Will the Future Be Good or Bad?
V. Taking Action
10. What to Do
Acknowledgments
Appendices
1. Further Resources
2. Terminology
3. The SPC Framework
4. Objections to Longtermism
Figure Credits and Data Sources
Notes
Index
Edition Notes
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