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Nick Beckstead - Footnote 1

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The source does not provide the exact title of the dissertation. It only mentions that the dissertation combines his research interests. The source does not mention that Larry Temkin supervised the dissertation. The source does not explicitly state that the dissertation is a foundational reference in the effective altruism and AI safety communities.

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partial85%Haiku 4.5 · 4/3/2026

Found: His 2013 Rutgers University PhD dissertation, *On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future*, is widely cited as an early systematic defense of the view that actions affecting the trajecto…

Note: The source does not provide the exact title of the dissertation. It only mentions that the dissertation combines his research interests. The source does not mention that Larry Temkin supervised the dissertation. The source does not explicitly state that the dissertation is a foundational reference in the effective altruism and AI safety communities.

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