What We Owe the Future

This book is like marzipan. Interesting to look at, but the actual substance tastes kind of like Styrofoam This is a fun book in concept. I agree that we should think in longer-term increments. I’ve noticed as I’ve matured, my thinking from childhood has developed from days, to weeks as a teenager, t......more

Extremely ambitious, and extremely persuasive. Future people count, there could be a lot of them, and we can make their lives better. What We Owe the Future is a book about these three ideas, which come together in longtermism: the view that we as society should be doing far more to protect future ge......more

It was admittedly a little tough to mark this as 3 stars, though I am rounding it down from 3.5 stars which I would give had I the option. This evaluation is less comparable to other books to which I've granted three stars, and is more an instantiation of the perhaps unjustifiably high bar to which......more

I’ve read a draft of the introduction and first chapter and wow, MacAskill's writing here is incredibly beautiful and compelling. Can’t wait to read the rest of the book when it comes out in August.......more

Quite a good read, though I'm not sure why Toby Ord and Will Macaskill didn't combine forces to write a book together that is The Precipice and this one combined. Reading both feels a bit redundant in parts. Still, well written and researched, thought-provoking, and positive. Some points from it: * We......more