Book Review: What We Owe The Future (Erik Hoel)

A review of MacAskill's What We Owe The Future, which functions as a follow-up to "Why I am not an effective altruist," (previously discussed on the EA forum here). Overall thesis statement is pretty simple:

All to say: while in-practice the EA movement gets up to a lot of good and generally promotes good causes, its leaders should stop flirting with sophomoric literalisms like “If human civilization were destroyed but replaced by AIs there would be more of them so the human genocide would be a bad thing only if the wrong values got locked-in.”