Longtermism

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  • Criticism: Longermism suffers from all the standard criticism of consequentialism
    • Response: Longtermism doesn't require consequentialist assumptions. Many individuals and societies have felt an obligation towards their decendents
    • Response: Many criticisms of consequentialism are baseless [[criticisms of consequentialism]]
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  • Longtermism could be used to justify not caring about the world now
    • This is partially true
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  • Future lives don't exist, how could we care about them
  • Something about Bostrom
  • Something about ripples in a pond
  • Something about Hanson
  • Longtermism is unaccountable
  • Lontermist thinkers have skeletons in their closets
  • A future that doesn't deal with current suffering is not one some people want to live in
  • Criticism: Longermism suffers from all the standard criticism of consequentialism
    • Response: Longtermism doesn't require consequentialist assumptions. Many individuals and societies have felt an obligation towards their decendents
    • Response: Many criticisms of consequentialism are baseless [[criticisms of consequentialism]]
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  • Future lives don't exist, how could we care about them
  •  Something about Bostrom
  • Something about ripples in a pond
  • Something about Hanson

Longtermism[1][2] is a philosophy that future lives matter and that we have a similar obligation to them as we do to lives around currently. William Macaskill states it in three clauses:clauses[3]: 

  • Future people count
  • There could be a lot of them
  • We can make their lives go better

 

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism

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  3. ^

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/opinion/the-case-for-longtermism.html

This tagLongtermism is intendeda philosophy that future lives matter and that we have a similar obligation to them as we do to lives around currently. William Macaskill states it in three clauses: 

  • Future people count
  • There could be a general purpose "thinkinglot of them
  • We can make their lives go better

[broad description of philosophy, something about WWOTF]

Criticisms and caringresponses

  • Criticism: Longermism suffers from all the standard criticism of consequentialism
    • Response: Longtermism doesn't require consequentialist assumptions. Many individuals and societies have felt an obligation towards their decendents
    • Response: Many criticisms of consequentialism are baseless [[criticisms of consequentialism]]
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  • Future lives don't exist, how could we care about the very long term" (measured in at least thousands of years, and more reasonably millions/billions/trillions of years"). Not attached to any particular philosophy about how to do that.

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This tag is intended as a general purpose "thinking and caring about the very long term" (measured in at least thousands of years, and more reasonably millions/billions/trillions of years"). Not attached to any particular philosophy about how to do that.