Even if the Forum isn’t a “well-targeted place” for a certain piece of EA content, it still seems good for things to end up here, because “getting feedback from people who are sympathetic to your goals and have useful background knowledge” is generally a really good thing no matter where you aim to publish something eventually.
Perhaps there will come a time in the future when “longtermism” becomes enough of a buzzword to justify clarification in a mainstream opinion piece or journal article. At that point, it seems good to have a history of discussion behind the term, and ideally one meaning that people in EA already broadly agree upon. (“This hasn’t been debated recently” =/= “we all have roughly the same definition that we are happy with”.)
Even if the Forum isn’t a “well-targeted place” for a certain piece of EA content, it still seems good for things to end up here, because “getting feedback from people who are sympathetic to your goals and have useful background knowledge” is generally a really good thing no matter where you aim to publish something eventually.
Perhaps there will come a time in the future when “longtermism” becomes enough of a buzzword to justify clarification in a mainstream opinion piece or journal article. At that point, it seems good to have a history of discussion behind the term, and ideally one meaning that people in EA already broadly agree upon. (“This hasn’t been debated recently” =/= “we all have roughly the same definition that we are happy with”.)