We need a different name for those people who will be, and potential future people. We can be concerned for the former and indifferent to the latter.
MacAskell has a Gedanken about imagining yourself as all the future people. He drifts from future people to potential future people. By conflating the two he attempts to fool us into concern for the latter . https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/opinion/the-case-for-longtermism.html
Since these hypothetically large number of people are the product of this thought experiment, I like to call them Gedanken people, as distinguished from future people.
We need a different name for those people who will be, and potential future people. We can be concerned for the former and indifferent to the latter.
MacAskell has a Gedanken about imagining yourself as all the future people. He drifts from future people to potential future people. By conflating the two he attempts to fool us into concern for the latter . https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/opinion/the-case-for-longtermism.html
Since these hypothetically large number of people are the product of this thought experiment, I like to call them Gedanken people, as distinguished from future people.