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cf838a3c | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 "Why do I think this ideology is so dangerous? The short answer is that elevating the fulfilment of humanity’s supposed potential above all else could nontrivially increase the probability that actual people – those alive today and in the near future – suffer extreme harms, even death"

— Émile Torres

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Carlos Guerreiro | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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Besides the bizarre ethics, I can't see longtermists as even remotely rational when they downplay the risks of climate change, as to our best knowledge the distribution of outcomes in many climate change paths (including the one we are on now) contains even the collapse of civilisation with a non-trivial probability.