Shulman & Thornley — How much should governments pay to prevent catastrophes? Longtermism's limited role

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20/03/2023 57 min Temporada 1
Shulman & Thornley — How much should governments pay to prevent catastrophes? Longtermism's limited role

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Carl Shulman & Elliott Thornley argue that the goal of longtermists should be to get governments to adopt global catastrophic risk policies based on standard cost-benefit analysis rather than arguments that stress the overwhelming importance of the future.
https://philpapers.org/archive/SHUHMS.pdf
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