Nick Bostrom delivered a Flagship Seminar on Macrostrategy at the Bank of England. Go to the Bank of England event page for the video recording
Nick discussed some of the challenges that appear if one is seeking to maximize the expected value of the long-term consequences of present actions, particularly if one’s objective function has a time-neutral altruistic component. This requires one to engage with concepts such as existential risk, future technological transformations, predictability horizons, and a number of crucial considerations.