Longtermism Is Surprisingly Obvious - by Bentham's Bulldog
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Even Strong Longtermism
It is a law of nature that every article a journalist writes that’s critical of effective altruism will inevitably contain at least one sneering paragraph about Longtermism, most likely calling it eugenics. This has been proved scientifically beyond 8 sigma. It is more certain than death and taxes. Rumor has it that in an unedited draft of his Meditations, Descartes used this fact as the inerrant foundation of all of the rest of his beliefs. But such articles generally overlook a crucial fact: Longtermism is obviously correct. We should prioritize the far future of humanity over the next…
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