When I say this (in a highly compressed form, on the shortform where that’s okay), it gets a bit downvoted; when Scott says it, or at least, says something highly similar to my intent, it gets highly upvoted.
Having read both your sentence and Scott’s article, I would not have connected these two as saying the same thing without this addition. Given that one sentence in isolation, I’m not able to tell what your intent was.
I think if you’d expanded it to a few sentences, of the form “Here’s what we shouldn’t do, this is why, this is what we should do instead” that may have been better, rather than just the former.
Stop using “Longtermism” as a pointer to a particular political coalition with a particular cause.
Why do you think this?
When I say this (in a highly compressed form, on the shortform where that’s okay), it gets a bit downvoted; when Scott says it, or at least, says something highly similar to my intent, it gets highly upvoted.
Having read both your sentence and Scott’s article, I would not have connected these two as saying the same thing without this addition. Given that one sentence in isolation, I’m not able to tell what your intent was.
I think if you’d expanded it to a few sentences, of the form “Here’s what we shouldn’t do, this is why, this is what we should do instead” that may have been better, rather than just the former.