Thanks for sharing this (though as a result I spent another hour falling down another longtermism criticism rabbit hole … ). It’s relieving (and saddening) to see that there is a certain degree of commonality with my themes as I honestly did not know how generalizable they would be: many of these comments carry such a similar tone & concern to the ones I found underneath the podcast.
“Plus its name is a fraud. As if it was actually about the long-term, they would’ve taken the effort to actually curb the climate crisises going on, in order to make sure we’re not underwater or dying of thirst.”
Yes it’s saddening. I also saw that the person being quoted (Paris Marx) interviewed Phil Torres, which I find concerning because I’m sure it’s full of misinformation. Not sure what we should do about that. Maybe not driving any attention is the best approach at this point
Thank you for doing this! I recently saw comments to another leftist intellectual about EA& What We Owe The Future (https://mobile.twitter.com/rcbregman/status/1558546645247311873) and was somewhat astonished by just HOW OFF-MARK the comments were.
Also interesting that one type of comment is “you can’t predict the future” while another is “I’m really certain [X] will happen in the future”
Thanks for sharing this (though as a result I spent another hour falling down another longtermism criticism rabbit hole … ). It’s relieving (and saddening) to see that there is a certain degree of commonality with my themes as I honestly did not know how generalizable they would be: many of these comments carry such a similar tone & concern to the ones I found underneath the podcast.
“Plus its name is a fraud. As if it was actually about the long-term, they would’ve taken the effort to actually curb the climate crisises going on, in order to make sure we’re not underwater or dying of thirst.”
Yes it’s saddening. I also saw that the person being quoted (Paris Marx) interviewed Phil Torres, which I find concerning because I’m sure it’s full of misinformation. Not sure what we should do about that. Maybe not driving any attention is the best approach at this point