Wow, this makes me feel old, haha! (Feeling old feels much better than I thought it would. Itās good to be alive.)
There was a lot of scholarship on existential risks and global catastrophic risks going back to the 2000s. There was Nick Bostrom and the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference (e.g. I love this talk from the 2008 conference), the Global Catastrophic Risks anthology published in 2008, and so on. So, existential risk/āglobal catastrophic risk was an idea about which there had already been a lot of study even going back about a decade before the coining of ālongtermismā. Imagine my disappointment when I hear about this hot new idea called longtermism ā I love hot new ideas! ā and it just turns out to be rewarmed existential risk.
I agree that it might be perfectly fine to re-brand old, good ideas, and give them a fresh coat of paint. Sure, go for it. But Iām just asking for a little truth in advertising here.
Wow, this makes me feel old, haha! (Feeling old feels much better than I thought it would. Itās good to be alive.)
There was a lot of scholarship on existential risks and global catastrophic risks going back to the 2000s. There was Nick Bostrom and the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference (e.g. I love this talk from the 2008 conference), the Global Catastrophic Risks anthology published in 2008, and so on. So, existential risk/āglobal catastrophic risk was an idea about which there had already been a lot of study even going back about a decade before the coining of ālongtermismā. Imagine my disappointment when I hear about this hot new idea called longtermism ā I love hot new ideas! ā and it just turns out to be rewarmed existential risk.
I agree that it might be perfectly fine to re-brand old, good ideas, and give them a fresh coat of paint. Sure, go for it. But Iām just asking for a little truth in advertising here.