This. It was already talked and discussed a whole lot, but the worst thing about it is that it’s a Salon article. Even before the fact that the news is mostly useless for reasons like this: https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood#:~:text=At a global scale%2C anything,networked global media covering
It’s an article that has severe charitability issues, and it’s basically as bad as a political article for explaining longtermism, which has negative value.
See Response to Phil Torres’ ‘The Case Against Longtermism’ and Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism, including comments.
This. It was already talked and discussed a whole lot, but the worst thing about it is that it’s a Salon article. Even before the fact that the news is mostly useless for reasons like this: https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood#:~:text=At a global scale%2C anything,networked global media covering
It’s an article that has severe charitability issues, and it’s basically as bad as a political article for explaining longtermism, which has negative value.