We Are Not The Final Chapter

For forty years a simple probabilistic argument has attempted to show that the human story is coming to an end. The argument is flawed, and our journey is just beginning.

There is currently a fire debate in opinion columns on the subject of longtermism - the idea that we should prioritise the long term future. The sheer overwhelming number of possible future humans or posthumans, even when discounting their priority with distance into the future, gives them an outsized role in our moral calculus. However, there are some …