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Andreas Mogensen | The good news about just saving Global Priorities Seminar Presented as part of the Global Priorities Seminar series 12 June 2020 View full transcript Expand ANDREAS MOGENSEN (00:10) So I take it that the central question in the theory of Intergenerational Justice can be posed roughly as follows. Most of the people […]
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
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
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
