Pessimism about the future

Many, probably most, people are optimists about the future, believing that the extinction of sentient life on earth would be, overall, bad. This paper suggests that pessimism about the future is no less reasonable than optimism. The argument rests on the possibility of ‘discontinuities’ in value, in...

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Main Author: Crisp, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023