HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Reading Will MacAskill’s "What We Owe the Future"

Five book prospectuses stapled together: a great one on effective altruism proper, a very good one on making humanity resilient, a good but unconvincing one (because Derek Parfit is wrong) on how Derek Parfit is right, an unsatisfactory grandiose one about our place in human history, and a barking mad one on the threat of the Robot Uprising. But overall, quite good! I enjoyed reading! You should read!…

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