{"id":145647,"date":"2022-09-05T13:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/anders-sandberg-grand-futures-thinking-truly-long-term"},"modified":"2022-09-05T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:22:39","slug":"anders-sandberg-grand-futures-thinking-truly-long-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/anders-sandberg-grand-futures-thinking-truly-long-term","title":{"rendered":"Anders Sandberg \u2014 Grand Futures \u2014 Thinking Truly Long Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anders Sandberg - Grand Futures \u2013 Thinking Truly Long Term\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5fPOYEHHy4I?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>Synopsis: How can we think rigorously about the far future, and use this to guide near-term projects? In this talk I will outline my \u201cgrand futures\u201d project of mapping the limits of what advanced civilizations can achieve \u2013 in terms of survival, expanding in space, computation, mastery over matter and energy, and so on \u2013 and how this may interact with different theories about what truly has value.<\/p>\n<p>For some fun background reading, see \u2018What is the upper limit of value?\u2018which Anders Sandberg co-authored with David Manheim.<\/p>\n<p>This talk is part of the \u2018Stepping Into the Future\u2018conference.<\/p>\n<p>Anders Sandberg is a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and research associate at the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm. Anders background is computational neuroscience, but for the past 20 years he has been working on neuroethics, global catastrophic risk, long-range futures and reasoning about uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for tuning in!<\/p>\n<p>Have any ideas about people to interview? Want to be notified about future events? Any comments about the STF series?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/anders-sandberg-grand-futures-thinking-truly-long-term\">Continue reading \u201cAnders Sandberg \u2014 Grand Futures \u2014 Thinking Truly Long Term\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: How can we think rigorously about the far future, and use this to guide near-term projects? In this talk I will outline my \u201cgrand futures\u201d project of mapping the limits of what advanced civilizations can achieve \u2013 in terms of survival, expanding in space, computation, mastery over matter and energy, and so on \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145647","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}