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100			_a MacAskill, William
245			_a What we owe the future _cBy William MacAskill
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260			_aGreat Britain: _bOneworld Book, _cc2022.
300			_ai-vii+335P.
505			_aPart 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
520			_aWe 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"
650			_aAltruism 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
856			_uhttps://www.worldcat.org/title/1306274290
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