Long term-ist book that I missed: “The Good Ancestor: How To Think Long Term in a Short-Term World” by Roman Krznaric, released in October 2020. (The US version has a different subtitle.)
I just started listening to the audiobook. I’m about 8 minutes in and he’s already mentioning existential risk from AI and pandemics. In the next lines he mentions Bostrom and alludes to Ord. He draws a parallel between colonialism’s disregard for indigenous populations and the practice of ignoring future people.
Edit: after the intro we start to veer away from EA and talk about e.g. extinction rebellion as role models. Talking about a 100+ year horizon as being long term thinking.
Long term-ist book that I missed: “The Good Ancestor: How To Think Long Term in a Short-Term World” by Roman Krznaric, released in October 2020. (The US version has a different subtitle.)
And the TED Talk
I just started listening to the audiobook. I’m about 8 minutes in and he’s already mentioning existential risk from AI and pandemics. In the next lines he mentions Bostrom and alludes to Ord. He draws a parallel between colonialism’s disregard for indigenous populations and the practice of ignoring future people.
Edit: after the intro we start to veer away from EA and talk about e.g. extinction rebellion as role models. Talking about a 100+ year horizon as being long term thinking.
Searching on this forum, I can see that I missed references to it in https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/znaZXBY59Ln9SLrne/how-to-think-about-an-uncertain-future-lessons-from-other and https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ySwarSKFzxKLhCyo8/introduction-to-longtermism