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20 September
President of the French Republic since 2017.
À Miquelon, la montée des eaux menace l’avenir d’un village. Face au changement climatique, il nous faut nous adapter. Nous relocalisons le village pour protéger ses habitants et permettre aux générations futures de continuer à vivre sur leur terre. Nous adapter, sans jamais nous résigner. Nous continuerons à œuvrer pour protéger les territoires menacés, réduire nos émissions de gaz à effet de serre et limiter le réchauffement. Malgré les crises qui bouleversent le monde, le climat doit rester le combat de notre siècle. Ce message essentiel, je le réaffirmerai aux Nations unies dès demain. Po… English, from French In Miquelon, rising waters threaten the future of a village. Faced with climate change, we must adapt. We are relocating the village to protect its inhabitants and allow future generations to continue living on their land. Adapting, without ever giving up. We will continue to work to protect threatened territories, reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and limit global warming. Despite the crises shaking the world, the climate must remain the fight of our century. I will reaffirm this essential message at the United Nations tomorrow. Po...
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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
"Perhaps the most useful role that the discipline of International Relations may play is ... as a generator of largely untestable and incompatible claims that can then help inform policy systems that are better adapted to work with many possible futures." Related
18 September
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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There are only five possible futures for superintelligence: 1. Kills human race 2. Human disempowerment 3. Paperclip maximizer 4. Departs for parts unknown 5. Stoner
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17 September
Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
Short Canada is building a deeper alliance with the EU so that we may write our own futures. Europe Related
9 September
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
8 September
Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.
"Flywheels: How Cities Are Creating Their Own Futures" was written by my friend Tom Alberg. We discussed how a flywheel effect is neutral since it compounds failure just as effectively as it compounds success. Failure can breed more failure [repeat]. discovery.org
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20 August
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
14 August
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
30 July
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Possible Futures of Happiness At Automattic, we don’t have customer service or support, we have Happiness Engineers. 🙂 There’s also a #ceo Slack channel where anyone can drop in and request a meeting, which my esteemed colleague Damianne President…
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27 July
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Mastodon Only a few more days to submit an application! Come join a crew of brilliant people building the imaginative muscle to make and move towards better futures. Applications are due Thu, noon EDT. everythingchanges.us
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24 July
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
5 May
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
Design Futures Assembly About a hundred senior designers and leaders from AI labs, big tech companies, and startups got together in San Francisco last week for the Design Futures Assembly. The public conversation about AI and design tends to l…
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5 December 2025
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
3 August 2025
Philosopher at Oxford; co-founded effective altruism and 80,000 Hours, wrote Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and now works on what a good future would actually contain.
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But the difference in value between the world today and that common-sense utopia might be very small compared to the difference between that common-sense utopia and the best futures we could feasibly achieve.
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I see this as the strongest argument against the better futures perspective, and the reason why I don’t feel confident that work on Flourishing is higher-priority than work on Surviving, rather than merely in the same ballpark.
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Introducing Better Futures forethought.org
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Given how much moral progress we should hope to make in the future, and how much we’ll learn about what’s even empirically possible, we should act on the assumption that we have almost no idea what the best feasible futures would look like. Committing today to some particular vision would be a great mistake.
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30 June 2025
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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All of it is written with a much lower barrier to entry than my work, and I find the writing consistently strong and interesting.
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13 June 2024
Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.
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It’s the fact that you’re a deterministic structure living in a random background. And also, all of that selection bundled in you allows you to select on possible futures. So that’s where your will comes from.
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18 March 2024
Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.
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1 March 2023
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
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