Why I am probably not a longtermist - EA Forum

tl;dr: I am much more interested in making the future good, as opposed to long or big, as I neither think the world is great now nor am convinced it will be in the future. I am uncertain whether ther…

[anonymous] 4y 82 4 0 1 Thanks a lot for sharing this denise. Here are some thoughts on your points. On your point about moral realism, I'm not sure how that can be doing much work in an argument against longtermism specifically, as opposed to all other possible moral views. Moral anti-realism implies that longtermism isn't true, but then it also implies that near-termism isn't true. The thought seems to be that there could only be an argument that would give you reason to change your mind if moral realism were true, but if that were true, there would be no point in discussing arguments for an

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