Will is promoting longtermism as a key moral priority—merely one of our priorities, not the sole priority. He’ll say things like (heavily paraphrased from my memory) “we spend so little on existential risk reduction—I don’t know how much we should spend, but maybe once we’re spending 1% of GDP we can come back and revisit the question”.
It’s therefore disappointing to me when people write responses like this, responding to the not-widely-promoted idea that longtermism should be the only priority.
Will is promoting longtermism as a key moral priority—merely one of our priorities, not the sole priority. He’ll say things like (heavily paraphrased from my memory) “we spend so little on existential risk reduction—I don’t know how much we should spend, but maybe once we’re spending 1% of GDP we can come back and revisit the question”.
It’s therefore disappointing to me when people write responses like this, responding to the not-widely-promoted idea that longtermism should be the only priority.