What if humanity suddenly had a thousand times as many resources at our disposal? It might make fighting over them seem like a silly idea, since cooperating would be a safer way to be reliably better off. In this talk from EA Global 2018: London, Eric Drexler argues that when emerging technologies make our productive capacity skyrocket, we should be able to make the world much better for everyone.
You can read a transcript of this talk here: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/ea-global-2018-paretotopian-goal-alignment/
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