Increasing the quality of the far future. In principle there may be some way to have a lasting impact by making society better off for the indefinite future. I tend to think this is not very unlikely; it would be surprising if a social change (other than a values change or extinction) had an impact lasting for a significant fraction of civilization’s lifespan, and indeed I haven’t seen any plausible examples of such a change.
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I think the most promising interventions at the moment are:
Increase the profile of effective strategies for decision-making, particularly with respect to policy-making and philanthropy.
Given the mention of Christiano above, I want to shout out one of his more important blog posts.
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