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Adam Becker 2025 . 685.514 BEC . Beaverton Library
p010 Will: philosopher specializing in ethics
p010 Sam: a junior at MIT
p010 Centre of for Effective Altruism
p013 William MacAskill
p013 eliminating intestinal parasites treating blindness
p016 1e17 minds, 8e9 people over one billion years on earth, then spread to galaxy ... implying no evolution or
p017 "Transferring human minds to computers is probably impossible for a variety of good scientific reasons"
- Citation needed ... I am writing thoughts to a computer, thus part of my mind will be here if I forget what I am writing. Extrapolate at Moore's Law rates, exploit the rest of the Sun's output for artificial intelligence
p019 https://www.globalprioritiesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Case-for-Strong-Longtermism-GPI-Working-Paper-June-2021-2-2.pdf
p020 MacAskill 2022 What We Owe The Future (own)
p026 longtermism Almost anything can be justified in the name of saving the future of civilization
p299 ref. 5 Sam Altman March 16 2021 Moore's Law for Everything
p300 ref. 6 Robert Wiblin 2017 Most people report believing it’s incredibly cheap to save lives in the developing world (4.5 billion?)
p300 ref. 6 Givewell How We Produce Impact Estimates
.. and the book trails off into petulant ignorance and cherrypicked slanders about tech billionaires. Incompetence is not an entitlement.

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+ .p300 ref. 6 Robert Wiblin 2017 [[ https://80000hours.org/2017/05/most-people-report-believing-its-incredibly-cheap-to-save-lives-in-the-developing-world/ | Most people report believing it’s incredibly cheap to save lives in the developing world ]] ''(4.5 billion?)''
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+ ... and the book trails off into petulant ignorance and cherrypicked slanders about tech billionaires.  Incompetence is not an entitlement.