“Existential Choices Symposium (3-5pm GMT Monday 17th)” by Toby Tremlett🔹

For Existential Choices Debate Week, we’re trying out a new type of event: the Existential Choices Symposium. How it works: Any forum user can write a top-level comment that asks a question or introduces a consideration, the answer of which might affect people's answer to the debate statement[1]. For example: “Are there any interventions aimed at increasing the value of the future that are as widely morally supported as extinction-risk reduction?” You can start writing these comments now. The symposium's signed-up participants, Will MacAskill, Tyler John, Michael St Jules, Andreas Mogensen and Greg Colbourn, will respond to questions, and discuss them with each other and other forum users, in the comments. To be 100% clear - you, the reader, are very welcome to join in any conversation on this post. You don't have to be a listed participant to take part.  This is an experiment. We’ll see how [...] ---Outline:(00:16) How it works:(01:23) Brief bios for participants (mistakes mine):The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: March 14th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bpqurdjZvyYmHoHiA/existential-choices-symposium-3-5pm-gmt-monday-17th --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.