Truly impartial philanthropy represents the rarest and perhaps most ambitious form of charity—attempting to benefit all others, regardless of their connection to the donor.
As far as I know, only two major movements have seriously pursued this ideal: some forms of Buddhism, focusing on reducing suffering for all sentient beings in all worlds and all times, and more radical forms of longtermism, taking seriously topics like possible vast populations of digital minds, acausal trade, acausal moral norms, and so on. [...]
I strongly endorse expected total hedonistic utilitarianism, and therefore impartiality, but still do not care much about longtermism, as I think the effect of my actions is practically 0 after at most 100 years or so.
Thanks for the interesting post, Jan.
I strongly endorse expected total hedonistic utilitarianism, and therefore impartiality, but still do not care much about longtermism, as I think the effect of my actions is practically 0 after at most 100 years or so.