Leonhart comments on Nick Beckstead: On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Leonhart 27 June 2013 05:29:53PM *  1 point [-]

Personally, it's not actually about saving the future. It's about justifying the past.
(Not necessarily endorsing this as an ethical thesis. Reporting it as an attempted stack trace on my actual emotional reasons for supporting the good-future project.)