Interesting that you don’t come across many people these days who still identify as longtermist, that’s pretty different from my experience. I think it feels more intuitive to me to identify as ‘longtermist’ than ‘effective altruist’. The former is a claim about my values (people in the future matter morally) whereas the latter is behavioural and feels presumptuous (how altruistic really am I? Am I effective at it even when I try?). But I guess I’m in the minority on that!
Interesting that you don’t come across many people these days who still identify as longtermist, that’s pretty different from my experience. I think it feels more intuitive to me to identify as ‘longtermist’ than ‘effective altruist’. The former is a claim about my values (people in the future matter morally) whereas the latter is behavioural and feels presumptuous (how altruistic really am I? Am I effective at it even when I try?). But I guess I’m in the minority on that!