The following sorts of topics come up decently often:
Is longtermism focused only on humans?
Should longtermists focus on improving wellbeing for animals?
Should longtermists focus on improving wellbeing for artificial sentiences?
Are existential risks just about humans?
Topics like “Will most moral patients in the long-term future be humans? Other animals? Something else? By how large a margin?” also come up sometimes (though less often)
I think it’d be good to collect posts relevant to those things
Update: I’ve now made this entry
Non-Humans and the Long-Term Future
Why I propose this:
The following sorts of topics come up decently often:
Is longtermism focused only on humans?
Should longtermists focus on improving wellbeing for animals?
Should longtermists focus on improving wellbeing for artificial sentiences?
Are existential risks just about humans?
Topics like “Will most moral patients in the long-term future be humans? Other animals? Something else? By how large a margin?” also come up sometimes (though less often)
I think it’d be good to collect posts relevant to those things
Examples of posts that would warrant this tag:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/W5AGTHm4pTd6TeEP3/should-longtermists-mostly-think-about-animals
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XrRGKSvntGCZAajGk/longtermism-and-animal-advocacy
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cEqBEeNrhKzDp25fH/the-importance-of-artificial-sentience
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ocmEFL2uDSMzvwL8P/possible-misconceptions-about-strong-longtermism
Alternative tag name options:
Non-Humans and the Far Future
Longtermism and Non-Humans