Why might the future be good?

Abstract

The goodness of a world is mostly driven by the amount of explicit optimization that goes on to try to make the world good. This seems to be true even if relatively little optimization is going on. Fortunately, the future will likely be characterized by greater influence of altruistic values. If altruism was unlikely to win out, it would be important to address that, but as it is, there is more concern with assuring the future proceeds smoothly. – AI-generated abstract.