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Visions of the Future

This paper posits that the most significant long-term existential risk to human civilization is not an acute technological or environmental catastrophe, but a chronic, systemic decay driven by the psychological and demographic consequences of a biologically capped lifespan. The entrenched expectation of mortality before 120 years fosters a condition of "temporal myopia," which cultivates cultural short-termism, consumerist nihilism, and demographic apathy. A critical and compounding aspect of th

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Published: 3 January 2026
Source: OpenAlex
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment · Environment · Biotech
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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