Rationally Speaking #169 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on "Thinking About Humanity's Far Future"

What can we do now to affect whether humanity is still around in 1000 years (and what life will be like then)? In this episode, Julia talks with Owen Cotton-Barratt, a mathematician at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. They cover questions like: Given our poor track record of forecasting, is there any point to speculating about the far future? And is it rational to prioritize current people over future people? Sped up the speakers by ['1.0', '1.16']

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This episode is 00:44:50 long.

This episode was published on Jan 3, 2021.

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