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How your personal moral compass helps you build a better world | SJ Beard
To make the future go well, we might not need a perfect model for its end state, or an abstract philosophical theory to guide us. Can your own sense of “the right thing to do” actually help make the world better?
In this episode we talk with SJ Beard, researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and author of the book “Existential Hope”.
Some of the topics we discuss:
How to shift our focus from "preventing the end of the world" to actively building a future worth living.
Why aiming for a “happy ever after” state of the world might be dangerous, and why improving the world one…
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