Ever wondered why the company is called Anthropic? The trail starts with Nick Bostrom, who coined "anthropic bias" in his 2002 book which states our observations of the universe are skewed by the fact that we're here to make them. One unsettling implication is that humanity's future may be shorter than we think. Bostrom is a central figure in Effective Altruism and one of the architects behind EA longtermism: the idea that positively shaping the long-term future is a key moral priority of our…