Meta-point – I think it would be better if this was called something other than “baby longtermism”, as I found this confusing. Specifically, I initially thought you were going to be writing a post about a baby (i.e., “dumbed-down”) version of longtermism.
Fair point. Although, I think I did also mean “dumbed down longtermism”. Every far longtermist threat, like engineered pandemics, AI alignment, existential risk, great power war, environmental degradation, etc, also threatens current children. Possibly regular people (non-EAs) would understand the threat better/empathize more easily if it were a threat to children vs concepts of future people.
Meta-point – I think it would be better if this was called something other than “baby longtermism”, as I found this confusing. Specifically, I initially thought you were going to be writing a post about a baby (i.e., “dumbed-down”) version of longtermism.
Fair point. Although, I think I did also mean “dumbed down longtermism”. Every far longtermist threat, like engineered pandemics, AI alignment, existential risk, great power war, environmental degradation, etc, also threatens current children. Possibly regular people (non-EAs) would understand the threat better/empathize more easily if it were a threat to children vs concepts of future people.