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From the Ted Talk by Will MacAskill: What are the most important moral problems of our time?

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So I think the fturue is going to be really big, but is it going to be good? Is the hmaun race even really worth preserving? Well, we hear all the time about how things have been getting worse, but I think that when we take the long run, things have been getting radically better. Here, for example, is life expectancy over time. Here's the protprioon of people not living in erxmete poverty. Here's the nbuemr of countries over time that have decriminalized homosexuality. Here's the number of countries over time that have become democratic. Then, when we look to the future, there could be so much more to gain again. We'll be so much richer, we can solve so many prelmbos that are intractable today.

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So I think the ______ is going to be really big, but is it going to be good? Is the _____ race even really worth preserving? Well, we hear all the time about how things have been getting worse, but I think that when we take the long run, things have been getting radically better. Here, for example, is life expectancy over time. Here's the __________ of people not living in _______ poverty. Here's the ______ of countries over time that have decriminalized homosexuality. Here's the number of countries over time that have become democratic. Then, when we look to the future, there could be so much more to gain again. We'll be so much richer, we can solve so many ________ that are intractable today.

Solution

  1. proportion
  2. future
  3. extreme
  4. human
  5. problems
  6. number

Original Text

So I think the future is going to be really big, but is it going to be good? Is the human race even really worth preserving? Well, we hear all the time about how things have been getting worse, but I think that when we take the long run, things have been getting radically better. Here, for example, is life expectancy over time. Here's the proportion of people not living in extreme poverty. Here's the number of countries over time that have decriminalized homosexuality. Here's the number of countries over time that have become democratic. Then, when we look to the future, there could be so much more to gain again. We'll be so much richer, we can solve so many problems that are intractable today.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
human race 5
effective altruism 3
million years 3
vast majority 2
industrial revolutions 2
research program 2
easily solvable 2
global health 2
big priority 2
factory farming 2
hugely neglected 2
philanthropic funding 2
nuclear war 2
typical mammalian 2
extreme poverty 2
artificial intelligence 2

Important Words

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  2. countries
  3. decriminalized
  4. democratic
  5. expectancy
  6. extreme
  7. future
  8. gain
  9. good
  10. hear
  11. homosexuality
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  14. life
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  17. number
  18. people
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  20. preserving
  21. problems
  22. proportion
  23. race
  24. radically
  25. richer
  26. run
  27. solve
  28. time
  29. today
  30. worse
  31. worth