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Will MacAskill

Scottish moral philosopher, associate professor at Oxford and co-founder of the effective altruism movement, now senior research fellow at Forethought working on AGI preparedness.

Jun 5, 2026

81:54
Is there anything more to say about what is the challenge? And I guess, what is the urgent challenge that we face with space governance?
81:59
Okay, great.
82:00
There's two challenges with space governance.
82:02
So that's a couple of starting intuition pumps for why this would become important.
82:11
One is just, okay, well, if the industrial base is growing a lot, well, we're going to need more resources.
82:19
And you've got enormous, in fact, a billion fold as many resources in space as there are on Earth.
82:26
And then a second is, once you've got AGI, it is much easier to do things in space, to have industry.

1 HR 35 MINS LATER

177:04
you want to make the case that sort of by default, assuming that we navigate through upcoming times, we don't go extinct, that in practice we're likely to do something that from an ethical or moral perspective is very mediocre, that only achieves quite a small fraction of the total value that in principle could be generated by the universe?

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