What we owe the future By William MacAskill

By:

MacAskill, William

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Great Britain: Oneworld Book, c2022.Edition: 1Description: i-vii+335PISBN:

9780861546138

Subject(s):

Altruism Artificial intelligence Moral and ethical aspects Civilization, Modern Forecasting Climatic changes Moral and ethical aspects Environmental ethics Ethics Ethics, Evolutionary Existential ethics Future life Moral and ethical aspects Future, The Human beings Extinction Human beings Forecasting Humanity Moral and ethical aspects Moral motivation Responsibility Social prediction

DDC classification:

1 171.8 MAC-W

Online resources:

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Contents:

Part I. The Long View: The case for longtermism You can shape the course of history Part II. Trajectory Changes: Moral change Value lock-in Part III. Safeguarding Civilisation: Extinction Collapse Stagnation Part IV. Assessing the End of the World: Is it good to make happy people? Will the future be good or bad? Part V. Taking Action: What to do

Summary: We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hundred thousand years hence. Our duty of care to each of those individuals is the same. Positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. This is the idea fuelling a burgeoning movement of longtermist thinkers: it explains why Elon Musk is trying to colonise Mars and why Jeff Bezos spent"

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	171.8 MAC-W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB4170

Part I. The Long View: The case for longtermism
You can shape the course of history
Part II. Trajectory Changes: Moral change
Value lock-in
Part III. Safeguarding Civilisation: Extinction
Collapse
Stagnation
Part IV. Assessing the End of the World: Is it good to make happy people?
Will the future be good or bad?
Part V. Taking Action: What to do

We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hundred thousand years hence. Our duty of care to each of those individuals is the same. Positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. This is the idea fuelling a burgeoning movement of longtermist thinkers: it explains why Elon Musk is trying to colonise Mars and why Jeff Bezos spent"

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