I’m not sure if I expected more positive comments. Some of the comments certainly disagree heavily (“ivory tower BS”, “future people don’t matter”), but most of the skeptical clusters don’t seem to fundamentally disagree with longtermism. Maybe learned helplessness (or Cheems mindset, sure), or something akin to a filter bubble where you learn about global problems but are not exposed to the (admittedly) fringe approaches to solving them. The climate movement is, for example, very good at spreading doom despite a non-catastrophic outlook. I wonder how much future optimism/progress propaganda à la OWID would help to move the opinion of young, liberal, academic people
I’m not sure if I expected more positive comments. Some of the comments certainly disagree heavily (“ivory tower BS”, “future people don’t matter”), but most of the skeptical clusters don’t seem to fundamentally disagree with longtermism. Maybe learned helplessness (or Cheems mindset, sure), or something akin to a filter bubble where you learn about global problems but are not exposed to the (admittedly) fringe approaches to solving them. The climate movement is, for example, very good at spreading doom despite a non-catastrophic outlook. I wonder how much future optimism/progress propaganda à la OWID would help to move the opinion of young, liberal, academic people