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Binding the Future: Long-sighted altruism boosts intergenerational sustainability

2023-12-21

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<p>Intergenerational cooperation, essential for addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity today, is particularly challenging to achieve. The risk of asteroid impact, biodiversity, and AI safety are archetypal examples of such intergenerational social dilemmas, but the most formidable and pressing one is climate change. A unique challenge of intergenerational social dilemmas is that key mechan...

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Literature Corpus work: 6979a550-05a7-5c73-8aa2-c8aebe1ffe33
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9szky

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