There are some good longtermist entries from the Creative Writing contest! Try out “Reset Button” or “All the people you could come to love”.
Personally, I find it motivating to imagine a successful civilization in the future looking back to our time and feeling grateful that the EA movement managed to work on some crucial step that helped civilization go much better. (Alongside all the other bets which will fail to work out, and probably seem silly from centuries hence.) They might feel about us the same way we today feel about philosophers like Mozi & Bentham who were far ahead of their time, or the entrepreneurs and scientists who started the Industrial Revolution, or all the soldiers and workers who sacrificed to stop the totalitarian threats of WW2. I tried to capture that feeling with my contest submission, “The Toba Supervolcanic Eruption”.
There are some good longtermist entries from the Creative Writing contest! Try out “Reset Button” or “All the people you could come to love”.
Personally, I find it motivating to imagine a successful civilization in the future looking back to our time and feeling grateful that the EA movement managed to work on some crucial step that helped civilization go much better. (Alongside all the other bets which will fail to work out, and probably seem silly from centuries hence.) They might feel about us the same way we today feel about philosophers like Mozi & Bentham who were far ahead of their time, or the entrepreneurs and scientists who started the Industrial Revolution, or all the soldiers and workers who sacrificed to stop the totalitarian threats of WW2. I tried to capture that feeling with my contest submission, “The Toba Supervolcanic Eruption”.