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Correction to what I say at 6 minutes 54 seconds: There's no evidence that Peter Thiel has financially supported the Future of Life Institute. He has merely expressed sympathy for the idea of longtermism. Sorry about that.

Longtermism is a currently popular philosophy among rich people like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Jaan Tallinn. What do they believe and what are the pros and cons? I sort it out for you.

Nick Bostrom's 2009 paper can be found in this volume:
https://escholarship.org/content/qt29...

Nick Bostrom's 2013 paper is here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

The Greaves and MacAskill paper from 2019 is this:
https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org...

The toddler's solution to the trolley problem is from this video:    • A twoyearold's solution to the trol...  

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00:00 Intro
00:35 Sponsor Message
01:20 What is Longtermism
07:15 Criticism of Longtermism
11:23 What are we to make of this?

Many thanks to Jordi Busqué for helping with this video http://jordibusque.com/