Personally, I think those two tags have sufficiently large and separate scopes for it to make sense for the forum to have both tags. (I didnāt create either tag, by the way.)
But the Longtermism (Philosophy) tag has perhaps been used too liberally, including for posts that shouldāve only been given tags like Long-Term Future or Existential Risk. Perhaps this is because the Longtermism (Philosophy) tag was around before Long-Term Future was created (not sure if thatās true), and/āor because the first two sentences of the Longtermism (Philosophy) tag didnāt explicitly indicate that its scope was limited to philosophical aspects of longtermism only. Inspired by your comment, Iāve now edited the tag description to hopefully help a bit with that.
The tag description used to be:
Longtermismis the idea that we can maximize our impact by working to ensure that the long-run future goes well (because it may contain an enormous number of people whose lives we may be able to improve).
This is a relatively new idea, and people in the EA movement currently work on a wide range of open questions related to different facets of longtermism.
This tag is meant for discussion of longtermist philosophy, rather than specific longtermist cause areas (there are other tags for those, like Existential Risk).
The tag description is now:
The Longtermism (Philosophy) tag is for posts about philosophical matters relevant to longtermism, meaning, roughly, āan ethical view that is particularly concerned with ensuring long-run outcomes go wellā (MacAskill). Longtermism is a relatively new idea, and people in the EA movement currently work on a wide range of open questions related to different facets of longtermism.
For posts about what the long-term future might actually look like, see Long-Term Future. For posts about specific longtermist cause areas, see other tags such as Existential Risk.
(The second sentence could perhaps be cut.)
For comparison, the tag description of Long-Term Future is:
The Long-Term Future tag is meant for discussion of what the long-term future might actually look like. This doesnāt necessarily overlap with the Longtermism (Philosophy) tag, because a post attempting to e.g. model the future of space travel wonāt necessarily discuss the philosophical implications of its model.
Personally, I think those two tags have sufficiently large and separate scopes for it to make sense for the forum to have both tags. (I didnāt create either tag, by the way.)
But the Longtermism (Philosophy) tag has perhaps been used too liberally, including for posts that shouldāve only been given tags like Long-Term Future or Existential Risk. Perhaps this is because the Longtermism (Philosophy) tag was around before Long-Term Future was created (not sure if thatās true), and/āor because the first two sentences of the Longtermism (Philosophy) tag didnāt explicitly indicate that its scope was limited to philosophical aspects of longtermism only. Inspired by your comment, Iāve now edited the tag description to hopefully help a bit with that.
The tag description used to be:
The tag description is now:
(The second sentence could perhaps be cut.)
For comparison, the tag description of Long-Term Future is: