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===Of lived and not-yet-lived experience=== | ===Of lived and not-yet-lived experience=== | ||
William MacAskill’s premise is this: barring near-term cataclysm, there are so many more people in our future than in the present, that our duty of care to this horde of sacred unborn swamps any concern for the here and now. We must do what we can to avoid that cataclysm, and vouchsafe the | William MacAskill’s premise is this: barring near-term cataclysm, there are so many more people in our future than in the present, that our duty of care to this horde of sacred unborn swamps any concern for the here and now. We must do what we can to avoid that cataclysm, and vouchsafe [[the future]]’s — well — ''future''. | ||
We are, thus, minding the shop not just for our children and grandchildren, but for generations not yet conceived — in any sense of the word — millennia hence. ''Thousands'' of millennia hence. | We are, thus, minding the shop not just for our children and grandchildren, but for generations not yet conceived — in any sense of the word — millennia hence. ''Thousands'' of millennia hence. | ||
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If you want sensible and thoughtful writing about the planet and its long term future, try [[Stewart Brand]] and Brian Eno and the good folk of the Long Now Foundation. Give this hokum the swerve. | If you want sensible and thoughtful writing about the planet and its long term future, try [[Stewart Brand]] and Brian Eno and the good folk of the Long Now Foundation. Give this hokum the swerve. | ||
{{Sa}} | {{Sa}} | ||
*[[The future]] | |||
*{{br|Finite and Infinite Games}} | |||
*[[Simulation hypothesis]] | *[[Simulation hypothesis]] | ||
*[[Gerd Gigerenzer]] | *[[Gerd Gigerenzer]] | ||
*{{Br|The Clock of the Long Now}} | *{{Br|The Clock of the Long Now}} | ||
{{c2|Futurism|Systems theory}} | {{c2|Futurism|Systems theory}} | ||