Global historical trends
- How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution? (1 hour 20 mins.)
- Three wild speculations from amateur quantitative macrohistory (10 mins.)
- Modeling the Human Trajectory - Open Philanthropy Project (30 mins.)
Forecasting
- Efforts to Improve Accuracy in our Judgements and Forecasts - Open Philanthropy (10 mins.)
- How accurate are Open Phil’s predictions? (18 mins.)
- Efforts to Improve the Accuracy of Our Judgments and Forecasts - exploring the ways to work on and the importance of improving our calibration
The case for longtermism
- All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild (15 mins.)
- Orienting towards the long-term future (Video - 25 mins.)
- The Case for Strong Longtermism - Global Priorities Institute (1 hour 20 mins.)
- The epistemic challenge to longtermism (2 min. Discussion of a somewhat longer paper)
- The Precipice, Appendix B - Population Ethics and Existential Risk (10 mins.)
- Representing future generations - Political institutions generally operate on 2-to-4-year timescales which aren’t long enough to address global issues (as the issue of climate change has shown). This talk analyzes sources of political short-termism and describes institutional reforms to align government incentives with the interests of all generations. (Video - 30 mins.)
- Blueprints (& lenses) for longtermist decision-making - How are we supposed to apply longtermism in practice? The author outlines two concepts of a ‘blueprint’ and a ‘lens’ to clarify this issue. (7 mins.)
- Major UN report discusses existential risk and future generations (summary) (18 mins.)
Criticism of longtermism
- Against Longtermism (1 min. summary, 5. min read)
- This short comment, and the more academic pieces that it links to (2 mins. for the comment, lots to explore)
- How the simulation argument dampens future fanaticism
- How much current animal suffering does longtermism let us ignore? (9 mins.)
- This comment, with ten reasons to work on near-term causes (2 mins.)
- The Base Rate of Longtermism Is Bad — EA Forum (effectivealtruism.org) (8 mins.)
- Towards a Weaker Longtermism — EA Forum (effectivealtruism.org) (4 mins.)
- Against Strong Longtermism: A Response to Greaves and MacAskill | by Ben Chugg | Curious | Medium (12 mins.)
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Thank you! Updated.