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Future Matters is a newsletter about longtermism and existential risk by Matthew van der Merwe and Pablo Stafforini. Each month we curate and summarize…
Future Matters

February 2023

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…
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December 2022

[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…
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September 2022

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…
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August 2022

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…
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July 2022

We could thus imagine, as an extreme case, a technologically highly advanced society, containing many complex structures, some of them far more…
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May 2022

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…
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April 2022

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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March 2022

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