tpotthinker

Crosspost from: https://inputlogic.substack.com/p/longtermism-is-extremely-intuitive Longtermism seeks to consider the welfare of the quintillions, septillions, or even octillions of potential future human beings, each with a likely higher level of consciousness and ability to feel pain/pleasure compared to us. Humanity has the ability to create astronomically high amounts of future beings, so...

Crosspost from: https://inputlogic.substack.com/p/woke-nonsense-in-competitive-debate I. Context For the last 2 weeks, I’ve been at a Lincoln-Douglas debate camp—mainly to learn more about philosophical arguments. The instructors and people there were generally very nice and much more intelligent than me, but the majority of arguments and ideas discussed in the debate space...