#208 — Existential Risk

Sam Harris speaks with Toby Ord about preserving the long term
future of humanity. They discuss moral biases with respect to
distance in space and time, the psychology of effective altruism,
feeling good vs doing good, possible blindspots in
consequentialism, natural vs human-caused risk, asteroid impacts,
nuclear war, pandemics, the potentially cosmic significance of
human survival, the difference between bad things and the absence
of good things, population ethics, Derek Parfit, the asymmetry
between happiness and suffering, climate change, and other
topics.


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