long-termism
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Recently, I was reading David Thorstad’s new paper “Existential risk pessimism and the time of perils”. In it, he models the value of reducing existential risk on a range of different assumptions. The headline result is that 1) most plausibly, existential risk reduction is not overwhelmingly valuable–though it may still be quite valuable, it doesn’t
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Our money goes further in the future, giving us an initial reason to invest to spend later. Unless we live at an especially important time.
Riley 