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Will MacAskill | What we owe the future Virtually presented to Harvard University Students April 2020 View full transcript Expand WILL MACASKILL: (00:00) Hi. Thank you all for attending this lecture and thank you so much Professor Pinker for inviting me to speak. I’m sorry that it’s trying times and I’m not able to be […]
Andreas Mogensen | What does the future ask of us? Presentation given at the Global Priorities Institute December 2019 View full transcript Expand ANDREAS MOGENSEN: (00:06) So a back-of-the-envelope calculation due to the philosopher Nick Bostrom who suggests that if the earth remains habitable for another one billion years and can sustainably support a population
Christian Tarsney | Can we predictably improve the far future? Presentation given at Effective Altruism Global London, October 2019 View full transcript Expand CHRISTIAN J. TARSNEY: (00:07) So, a lot of people in the EA community think that if we want to do the most good with a given unit of resources, we should focus
Teruji Thomas | The Asymmetry, Uncertainty, and the Long Term Read the paper Presentation given at the Global Priorities Institute September 2019 View full transcript Expand TERUJI THOMAS: (00:06) Hi. I’m Teru Thomas from the Global Priorities Institute and I’m going to be talking about a paper I’ve been working on which will be called
Christian Tarsney | The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism Read the paper Presentation given at the Global Priorities Institute, June 2019 View Full Transcript Expand CHRISTIAN J. TARSNEY: (00:07) Longtermism is roughly the view that in most of the choice situations or at least most of the most important choice situations that we face today, what
Andreas Mogensen | The Only Ethical Argument for Positive Delta? Read the paper Presentation given at the Global Priorities Institute, June 2019 View Full Transcript Expand ANDREAS MOGENSEN: (00:06) So the question I’d like to reflect on is: what sacrifices we should be willing to make for the sake of future people, in particular under
Philip Trammell | Philanthropy Timing and the Hinge of History Presentation given at Effective Altruism Global: San Francisco, June 2019 View the transcript here. Other videos Loren K. Fryxell | Infinite Ignorance 09 December 2024 Tomi Francis | Aggregating Small Risks of Serious Harms 14 June 2024 Charles I. Jones | Population and Welfare: The
Hilary Greaves | The Case for Longtermism Presentation given at the Global Priorities Institute, June 2019 Read the paper View Full Transcript Expand HILARY GREAVES: (00:07) This is a talk in practical ethics. I want to talk about a paradigm I’ll call longtermism. So to get into the longtermist frame of mind, consider the following
Will MacAskill | What are the most important moral problems of our time? Presented at an official TED conference in April 2018. View the transcript here. Other videos Loren K. Fryxell | Infinite Ignorance 09 December 2024 Tomi Francis | Aggregating Small Risks of Serious Harms 14 June 2024 Charles I. Jones | Population and
Hilary Greaves | Doing good together: Collectivism vs. coordination Presented at a EA Global: London, November 2017 Transcript Expand JONATHAN COURTNEY: (00:06) I’m delighted to present our next speaker Professor Hilary Greaves who is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on various issues in ethics. Her interests include
