nil answers What quotes do you find most inspire you to use your resources (effectively) to help others?

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In the real world, maybe we’re alone. The skies look empty. Cynics might point to the mess on Earth and echo C.S. Lewis: “Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” Yet our ethical responsibility is to discover whether other suffering sentients exist within our cosmological horizon; establish the theoretical upper bounds of rational agency; and assume responsible stewardship of our Hubble volume. Cosmic responsibility entails full-spectrum superintelligence: to be blissful but not “blissed out”—high-tech Jainism on a cosmological scale. We don’t yet know whether the story of life has a happy ending.

-- David Pearce, “High-Tech Jainism”