Greaves, H. & MacAskill, W. (2025). In J. Barrett, H. Greaves & D. Thorstad (Eds.), Essays on Longtermism (pp. 17–49). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Read in full in NOTE-1302, from the authors’ working paper (GPI Working Paper No. 5-2021, June 2021) on the Global Priorities Institute’s site, an earlier version of the 2025 chapter.
Why this is here
The central philosophical statement of longtermism, the most demanding view of what the living owe the future. For QUESTION-299.