Future Matters is a newsletter about longtermism and existential risk by Matthew van der Merwe and Pablo Stafforini. Each month we curate and summarize relevant research and news from the community. The version crossposted to the Effective Altruism Forum
That man is born merely for a few, who thinks only of the people of his own generation. Many thousands of years and many thousands of peoples will come…
[T]he sun with all the planets will in time grow too cold for life, unless indeed some great body dashes into the sun and thus gives it fresh life…
Even if we think the prior existence view is more plausible than the total view, we should recognize that we could be mistaken about this and therefore…
But if it is held that each generation can by its own deliberate acts determine for good or evil the destinies of the race, then our duties towards…
We could thus imagine, as an extreme case, a technologically highly advanced society, containing many complex structures, some of them far more…
In the littered field of discredited self-congratulatory chauvinisms, there is only one that seems to hold up, one sense in which we are special: Due to…
The remedies for all our diseases will be discovered long after we are dead; and the world will be made a fit place to live in. It is to be hoped that…
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