{"id":144465,"date":"2022-08-20T01:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T06:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/can-we-make-the-future-a-million-years-from-now-go-better"},"modified":"2022-08-20T01:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T06:22:57","slug":"can-we-make-the-future-a-million-years-from-now-go-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/can-we-make-the-future-a-million-years-from-now-go-better","title":{"rendered":"Can we make the future a million years from now go better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can we make the future a million years from now go better?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_uV3wP5z51U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can buy What We Owe the Future here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/titles\/william-macaskill\/what-we-owe-the-future\/9781541618626\/\">https:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/titles\/william-macaskill\/what-we-\u2026541618626\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his new book about longtermism, What We Owe the Future, the philosopher William MacAskill argues that concern for the long-term future should be a key moral priority of our time. There are three central claims that justify this view. 1. Future people matter. 2. There could be a lot of them. 3. We can make their lives go better. In this video, we focus on the third claim.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had the opportunity to read What We Owe the Future in advance thanks to the Forethought Foundation. They reached out asking if we could make a video on the occasion of the book launch. We were happy to collaborate, to help spread the ideas of the longtermist philosophy as far as possible <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-smile\" title=\":)\">smile<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Interested in donating to safeguard the long-term future of humanity? You can donate to an expert managed fund at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givingwhatwecan.org\/charities\/longtermism-fund\">https:\/\/www.givingwhatwecan.org\/charities\/longtermism-fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580PATREON, MEMBERSHIP, KO-FI\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580\u2580<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe0 Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/rationalanimations.\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/rationalanimations.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/can-we-make-the-future-a-million-years-from-now-go-better\">Continue reading \u201cCan we make the future a million years from now go better?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can buy What We Owe the Future here: https:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/titles\/william-macaskill\/what-we-\u2026541618626\/ In his new book about longtermism, What We Owe the Future, the philosopher William MacAskill argues that concern for the long-term future should be a key moral priority of our time. There are three central claims that justify this view. 1. Future people matter. 2. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}