I also find utilitarian thinking to be more useful/āpractical than ālongtermist thinkingā. That said, I havenāt seen much advocacy for longtermism as a guide to personal action, rather than as a guide to research that much more intensively attempts to map out long-term consequences.
Maybe an apt comparison would be āutilitarianism is to decisions I make in my daily life as longtermism is to the decisions Iād make if I were in an influential position with access to many person-years of planningā. But this is me trying to guess what another author was thinking; you could consider writing to them directly, too.
(I assume youāve heard/āconsidered points of this type before; Iām writing them out here mostly for my own benefit, as a way of thinking through the question.)
I also find utilitarian thinking to be more useful/āpractical than ālongtermist thinkingā. That said, I havenāt seen much advocacy for longtermism as a guide to personal action, rather than as a guide to research that much more intensively attempts to map out long-term consequences.
Maybe an apt comparison would be āutilitarianism is to decisions I make in my daily life as longtermism is to the decisions Iād make if I were in an influential position with access to many person-years of planningā. But this is me trying to guess what another author was thinking; you could consider writing to them directly, too.
(I assume youāve heard/āconsidered points of this type before; Iām writing them out here mostly for my own benefit, as a way of thinking through the question.)