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Flour­ish­ing futures

TagLast edit: Jul 27, 2022, 2:34 PM by Leo

Flourishing futures, utopias, ideal futures, or simply (highly) positive futures are expressions used to describe the extremely good forms that the long-term future could assume.

It could be important to consider what types of flourishing future are possible, how good each would be, how likely each is, and what would make these futures more or less likely. Reasons why this might be important include the following:

Further reading

Bostrom, Nick (2008) Letter from utopia, Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology, vol. 2.

Cotton-Barratt, Owen & Toby Ord (2015) Existential risk and existential hope: Definitions, Technical Report #2015-1, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.

LessWrong (2009) Fun theory, LessWrong Wiki, June 25.

Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, chapter 8, London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Pearce, David (1995) The Hedonistic Imperative, BLTC Research (updated 2007).

Sandberg, Anders (2020) Post scarcity civilizations & cognitive enhancement, Foresight Institute, September 4.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) The world’s most intellectual foundation is hiring. Holden Karnofsky, founder of GiveWell, on how philanthropy can have maximum impact by taking big risks, 80,000 Hours, February 27.

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dystopia | existential security | Future of Humanity Institute | Future of Life Institute | hedonium | hellish existential catastrophe | Invincible Wellbeing | long reflection | long-term future | longtermism | motivational | transhumanism | welfare biology

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