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

  • Mar 20 2023
  • Length: 58 mins
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Shulman & Thornley — How much should governments pay to prevent catastrophes? Longtermism's limited role

  • Summary

  • 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

    Note: Tables, notes and references in the original article have been omitted.

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