Better Futures

This week, we are highlighting Forethought's Better Futures series. To make the future go better, we can either work to avoid near-term catastrophes like human extinction or improve the futures where we survive. This series from Forethought explores that second option. Fin Moorhouse (@finm), who authored two chapters in the series (Convergence and Compromise, and No Easy Eutopia) along with...

This is a crosspost of the full text of Introducing Better Futures from Forethought's website, made for the EA Forum's Better Futures Highlight Week. There's more discussion at the original summary post of this article here. 1. The basic case Suppose we want the future to go better. What should we do? One prevailing...

This is a crosspost of the full text of No Easy Eutopia from Forethought's website, made for the EA Forum's Better Futures Highlight Week. There's more discussion at the original summary post of this article here. 1. Introduction The basic argument for the "better futures" perspective relied on the idea that we are closer to...

This is a crosspost of the full text of Convergence and Compromise from Forethought's website, made for the EA Forum's Better Futures Highlight Week. There's more discussion at the original summary post of this article here. 1. Introduction The...

This is a crosspost of the full text of Persistent Path-Dependence from Forethought's website, made for the EA Forum's Better Futures Highlight Week. There's more discussion at the original summary post of this article here. 1. Introduction One of the most common objections to working on better...

This is a crosspost of the full text of How to Make the Future Better from Forethought's website, made for the EA Forum's Better Futures Highlight Week. There's more discussion at the original summary post of this article here. 1. Introduction In the...

This is a crosspost of the full text of Supplement: The Basic Case for Better Futures from Forethought's website, made for the EA Forum's Better Futures Highlight Week.  1. Introduction This report introduces a simplified model for evaluating actions aimed at producing long-term good outcomes: the "SF model", where the expected value of the future can be approximated b...