is caring about the future really enough to meaningfully equate movements with vastly different ideas about how to improve the world?
Given that longtermism is literally defined as a focus on improving the long-term future, I think yes? You can come up with many vastly different ways to improve the long-term future, but we should think of the category as “all movements to improve the long term future” and not “all movements to improve the long term future focusing on AI and bio risk and value lock in”.
Let me rephrase: is focus on improving the long-term future enough to equate movements with vastly different ideas about how to improve the world, such that if one of those ideas turns out poorly, all ideas that similarly focus on the long-term future are just as risky or tainted by association?
Given that longtermism is literally defined as a focus on improving the long-term future, I think yes? You can come up with many vastly different ways to improve the long-term future, but we should think of the category as “all movements to improve the long term future” and not “all movements to improve the long term future focusing on AI and bio risk and value lock in”.
Let me rephrase: is focus on improving the long-term future enough to equate movements with vastly different ideas about how to improve the world, such that if one of those ideas turns out poorly, all ideas that similarly focus on the long-term future are just as risky or tainted by association?