Elon Musk & The Longtermists: What Is Their Plan?

Head to https://squarespace.com/sabine to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code sabine Correction to what I say at 6 minutes 54 seconds: There's no evidence that Peter Thiel has financially supported the Future of Life Institute. He has merely expressed sympathy for the idea of longtermism. Sorry about that. Longtermism is a currently popular philosophy among rich people like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Jaan Tallinn. What do they believe and what are the pros and cons? I sort it out for you. Nick Bostrom's 2009 paper can be found in this volume: https://escholarship.org/content/qt29... Nick Bostrom's 2013 paper is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a... The Greaves and MacAskill paper from 2019 is this: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org... The toddler's solution to the trolley problem is from this video:    • A two-year-old's solution to the trolley p...   💌 Sign up for my weekly science newsletter. It's free! ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsle... 👉 Support me on Patreon ➜   / sabine   📖 My new book "Existential Physics" is now on sale ➜ http://existentialphysics.com/ 🔗 Join this channel to get access to perks ➜    / @sabinehossenfelder   00:00 Intro 00:35 Sponsor Message 01:20 What is Longtermism 07:15 Criticism of Longtermism 11:23 What are we to make of this? Many thanks to Jordi Busqué for helping with this video http://jordibusque.com/