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Longtermism Books
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What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 6,546 ratings — published 2022
The Precipice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,132 ratings — published 2020
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as longtermism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,326 ratings — published 2009
Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as longtermism)
avg rating 4.10 — 809 ratings — published 1999
Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as longtermism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as longtermism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,044 ratings — published 2019
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as longtermism)
avg rating 3.42 — 624 ratings — published 2016
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 21,304 ratings — published 2014
Global Catastrophic Risks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 279 ratings — published 2008
The Ingenuity Gap: Can We Solve the Problems of the Future? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.72 — 306 ratings — published 2000
2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,468 ratings — published 2020
Philosophy for an Ending World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Why Worry About Future Generations? (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.69 — 36 ratings — published
The Phenomenon of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,734 ratings — published 1955
Last and First Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,095 ratings — published 1930
The Prometheus Project, Mankind's Search for Long-Range Goals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.97 — 682 ratings — published 2006
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,887 ratings — published 2025
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.90 — 246 ratings — published
The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 245 ratings — published
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,322 ratings — published 2021
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,524 ratings — published 2014
SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-term Thinking (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.92 — 83 ratings — published 2011
The Art Of The Long View: Planning For The Future In An Uncertain World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.80 — 924 ratings — published 1991
Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.41 — 472 ratings — published
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 4.23 — 582 ratings — published 2023
Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.79 — 24 ratings — published
The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.92 — 48 ratings — published
Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 17 ratings — published
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.91 — 464 ratings — published 2025
Effective Altruism: An Introduction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,001 ratings — published 2004
Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 48 ratings — published
The Hedonistic Imperative (ebook)
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avg rating 4.11 — 120 ratings — published 2015
The Existence Puzzles: An Introduction to Population Ethics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,322 ratings — published 2006
Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.15 — 48 ratings — published 2012
Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 2022
Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 32 ratings — published 2016
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,115 ratings — published 2022
The Long View: Essays on Policy, Philanthropy, and the Long-term Future (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.29 — 7 ratings — published 2021
What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.80 — 54 ratings — published
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 147 ratings — published
Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as longtermism)
avg rating 3.64 — 492 ratings — published 2013
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,933 ratings — published 1984
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 40,035 ratings — published 1994
The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,565 ratings — published 2020
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 165 ratings — published
The Fifth Science (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 6,166 ratings — published 2018
“As we destabilize the planetary systems we rely on for survival, the strain on our planet mirrors that in societies. These imbalances reinforce each other, amplifying the challenges.”
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“You may have noticed that in the midst of all this quantitative thinking, the qualitative disappears completely. Our minds become so dazzled at the thought of a scadzillion descendants on a million planets in a high-tech mulitiversal simulation that we forget to ask, not so much what kinds of lives the rich guys' progeny will lead but what kinds of lives the rest of us will continue to live in order to sustain this overgrown gamer fantasy.”
― Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
― Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
