Book · 2022 · altruism
What We Owe the Future
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And he wrote a book that is currently a bestseller. It was published in August called What We Owe the Future. And the gist of this is that like it's merging this kind of effective altruism with what's called long-termism.
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By the way, so in uh Wcastal's new book on long-termism, one of the things he speculates about is if society collapses and we need to restart, one of the things we'll need is coal or some other sort of like dense, easy to use fuel.
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Why people recommend it
What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill is a foundational exploration of long-termism, arguing that humanity has a moral obligation to protect the vast potential of future generations. Tyler Cowen plugged the Oxford philosopher's book toward the end of an episode of Conversations with Tyler. Nate Silver mentioned the text on Risky Business while discussing effective altruism and long-termist calculations with Maria Konnikova. Terrence Keeley referenced MacAskill's arguments on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast when debating responsibilities toward posterity, and Chris Williamson asked Jimmy Carr about the book on Modern Wisdom during a conversation about the future of humanity. Conversely, Robert Evans offered a strong critique on Behind the Bastards, examining how the book merges effective altruism with long-termism and detailing the specific philosophical arguments he found objectionable. Additionally, Dwarkesh Patel discussed the book on the Dwarkesh Podcast, highlighting MacAskill's speculation that a collapsed future society would specifically need accessible coal reserves to restart industrial civilization.
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Tyler Cowen exactly last question to close this out what is it you will do next but just to remind our readers what we… 1
“exactly last question to close this out what is it you will do next but just to remind our readers what we owe the future will's new book”
Chris Williamson did you read William MCC casal's what we owe the future did you see that no but I I I heard people talking… 1
“did you read William MCC casal's what we owe the future did you see that no but I I I heard people talking about it”
Dwarkesh Patel By the way, so in uh Wcastal's new book on long-termism, one of the things he speculates about is if societ… 1
“By the way, so in uh Wcastal's new book on long-termism, one of the things he speculates about is if society collapses and we need to restart, one of the things we'll need is coal or some other sort of like dense, easy to use fuel.”
Nate Silver I talked to um to will mccal who was kind of one of the founders of at least the brand name of EA and wrote… 1
“I talked to um to will mccal who was kind of one of the founders of at least the brand name of EA and wrote a book called what we ow the future”
Robert Evans And he wrote a book that is currently a bestseller. It was published in August called What We Owe the Futur… 1
“And he wrote a book that is currently a bestseller. It was published in August called What We Owe the Future. And the gist of this is that like it's merging this kind of effective altruism with what's called long-termism”
Terrence Keeley this is the William McAllister uh arguments that you probably what we owe the future a famous philosopher f… 1
“this is the William McAllister uh arguments that you probably what we owe the future a famous philosopher from uh Oxford University”
Other mentions (10: passing, ad reads, own books)
“i'm here with will mccaskill who is one of the most important and influential philosophers period and august 16th is the publication date of his new and excellent book what we owe the future”
“now perhaps you know in my book i argue there's enormous amounts of value at stake when we consider the long term”
“so the first is if you think that it's good to have more happy flourishing people um and i think like if people have sufficiently good lives then i think that's true i argue for it in what we are the future then by far and by overwhelming amounts”
“um in this book what we are the future is doing that an awful lot of people are going to promote cultural change around attitudes to non-human animals”
“and that's the perspective from which you would endorse uh in endorse this situation I see um and then yeah so another respect in which uh it's interesting to think about what they might think of us is you know like what will they think of the crazy risk we're taking”
“his new book is what we owe the future”
“because in the book in what we are the future I talk about the analogy between the present world and humanity”
“so in the what we are the future I give a story of ancient China so during this period that's known as the hund schools of thought the zuu dynasty had fallen”
“you know I've tried to pack as much as I can into a book but I think is yeah there's a lot to engage with”
“I use it very heavily to like Orient myself for the book”