For the record, while I’m perhaps the most prominent voice in EA for our time being one of the most influential there will ever be, I’m also very sympathetic to this approach. For instance, my claim is that this key time period has already been going for 75 years and can’t last more than a small number of centuries. This is quite compatible with more important times being 100 years away, and with the arguments that investing for long periods like that could provide a large increase in the expected impact of the resources (even if the time they were spent was not more influential). And of course, I might be wrong about the importance of this time. So I am excited to see more work exploring patient longtermism.
This is a very nice explanation Ben.
For the record, while I’m perhaps the most prominent voice in EA for our time being one of the most influential there will ever be, I’m also very sympathetic to this approach. For instance, my claim is that this key time period has already been going for 75 years and can’t last more than a small number of centuries. This is quite compatible with more important times being 100 years away, and with the arguments that investing for long periods like that could provide a large increase in the expected impact of the resources (even if the time they were spent was not more influential). And of course, I might be wrong about the importance of this time. So I am excited to see more work exploring patient longtermism.