Review Of A Meaningless Book - What We Owe The Future

I have developed a new habit in the last few years. I will review the books in my book case and throw the ones that are dangerously irrelevant to recycle. These books are not even worth donating in order to save others from not only wasting their time but corrupting their minds with sheer nonsense (like we already don't have enough bull shit in our heads). 

Books that mostly goes into recycle are: anything related to neuroscience or philosophy of consciousness, any historic philosophers who are arrogant to believe they are the smartest and wrote reams of outdated (even in their time) bull shit and final category of books related to futurism and how we can save the world. 

One thing I always believed and still do is that it's exponentially easier to eradicate evil in its preliminary stages than talk philosophy and ideate when evil matures. 

Scott Alexandra has a brilliant review of the new book What We Owe The Future by William MacAskill plus most importantly he talks about the new evil of the first planned Octopus farms. 

MacAskill doesn’t talk about this much besides gesturing about something something AI. Instead, he focuses on ideas he calls “moral entrepreneurship” and “moral exploration”; can we do what Benjamin Lay did in the 1700s and discover moral truths we were missing before of the same scale as “slavery is wrong”? And can we have different countries with different systems (he explicitly mentions charter cities) to explore fairer systems of government? Then maybe once we discover good things we can promote them before AI or whatever locks everything in.

I found this a disappointing conclusion to this section, so I’ll mention one opportunity I heard about recently: let’s be against octopus factory farming. Octopi seem unusually smart and thoughtful for animals, some people have just barely started factory farming them in horrible painful ways, and probably there aren’t enough entrenched interests here to resist an effort to stop this. This probably won’t be a legendary campaign that bards will sing about for all time the way abolitionism was, but I don’t know how you find one of those. Maybe find a hunchbacked Quaker dwarf who lives in a cave, and ask what he thinks.

No one writes books about how easy it is to do simple things daily plus some gratitude would help immensely he current and future generation.

Anyone can do these simple things everyday - starting now:

• Limiting water consumption during bath, washing dishes to laundry
• Don't waste food. Eat less. Mostly Plants. 
• Use car, cell phone and other electronics for its full lifetime. 
• Buy eco-friendly clothes, products and use them until they are worn out.
• Drive less. Walk more. 
• Stop mindless travel 
• Plant trees. Plant native plants to replace your lawn.

These simple things are fun to do and rewarding. I do follow these plus more everyday. It is more fun than any video game.