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Rationally Speaking #169 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on "Thinking About Humanity's Far Future"
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:49:36
Publish Date: 2016-10-02 17:00:00
Description: 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?
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