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William MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe the Future’ is an audacious plea to help our future humans with longtermism thinking, but it is blind to what we need now.

A much-discussed new book makes a radical call to reorient human morality toward the distant future.

Round up for charity?

In a few short years, effective altruism has become the giving philosophy for many Silicon Valley programmers, hedge funders and even tech billionaires.

As new privacy questions arise with the advent of facial recognition, decisions we make on data today could have effects for millennia

There are those who believe that we have a responsibility to all those humans who do not yet exist. What about those in pain now?

In texts revealed in proceedings between Twitter and Elon Musk, the FTX CEO was willing to contribute up to $5 billion toward acquiring the birdsite.

Like most people, Im a compartmentalizer. For years I went blithely about my business — doing my work, watching movies, celebrating birthdays — while only rarely thinking about the end of the world.

Since my childhood at the dawn of the nuclear age, the existential risks facing humans have continued to grow.

In nonfiction, an account by a retired Green Beret of a rescue during the last U.S. days in Afghanistan. Also new in fiction, a Taylor Jenkins Reid tale. Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Sept. 3.