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The Weight of Forever

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"I don’t think we owe the future anything, strictly speaking, and this is why the future can be so exciting."

If you enjoy reading this, please consider becoming a patron or making a small donation . We are unfunded and need your support. When confronted with a best-selling book by an up-and-coming Oxford philosopher, it’s hard to resist the urge to subject the title to a little linguistic analysis. Building on the success of his previous book, Doing Good Better , which introduced the wider public to the idea of effective altruism – optimising our positive impact on the world through scientific philanthropy – William MacAskill’s new book What We Owe the Future introduces us to the idea of longtermism

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