“Assuming longtermism, are “broad” or “narrow” approaches to improving the value of the long-term future more promising?”
This is mostly just a broadening of one of Arden’s suggestions: “Do anti-aging research, animal welfare work, and/or economic growth speedups have positive very long term benefits in expectation?” Not sure how widely debated this still is, but examples include 1, 2, and 3.
Partly relatedly, I find Sentience Institute’s “Summary of Evidence for Foundational Questions in Effective Animal Advocacy” a really helpful resource for keeping track of the most important evidence and arguments on important questions, and I’ve wondered whether a comparable resource would be helpful for the effective altruism community more widely.
“Assuming longtermism, are “broad” or “narrow” approaches to improving the value of the long-term future more promising?”
This is mostly just a broadening of one of Arden’s suggestions: “Do anti-aging research, animal welfare work, and/or economic growth speedups have positive very long term benefits in expectation?” Not sure how widely debated this still is, but examples include 1, 2, and 3.
Partly relatedly, I find Sentience Institute’s “Summary of Evidence for Foundational Questions in Effective Animal Advocacy” a really helpful resource for keeping track of the most important evidence and arguments on important questions, and I’ve wondered whether a comparable resource would be helpful for the effective altruism community more widely.