Longtermism is the view that positively influencing the longterm future is a key moral priority of our time.
Longtermism is a conclusion we arrive at by applying the EA framework of importance-tractability-crowdedness (where ‘importance’ is defined to include valuing future lives). Hence, EA is primary, and longtermism is secondary. EA tells us how to manage tradeoffs between benefitting the far future and doing good in the near term, and how to change our behavior as longtermist interventions hit diminishing returns.
Longtermism is a conclusion we arrive at by applying the EA framework of importance-tractability-crowdedness (where ‘importance’ is defined to include valuing future lives). Hence, EA is primary, and longtermism is secondary. EA tells us how to manage tradeoffs between benefitting the far future and doing good in the near term, and how to change our behavior as longtermist interventions hit diminishing returns.