FWIW my intuition is that if you have a name for a thing, it means the opposite of that is the default. If there’s a special term for “longtermist”, that means people are not longtermists by default (which I think is basically true—most people are not longtermists, and longtermism is kind of a weird position (although I do happen to agree with it)). Sort of like how EAs are called EAs, but there’s no word for people who aren’t EAs, because being not-EA is the default.
FWIW my intuition is that if you have a name for a thing, it means the opposite of that is the default. If there’s a special term for “longtermist”, that means people are not longtermists by default (which I think is basically true—most people are not longtermists, and longtermism is kind of a weird position (although I do happen to agree with it)). Sort of like how EAs are called EAs, but there’s no word for people who aren’t EAs, because being not-EA is the default.
Yeah I think that’s true if you only have the term “longtermist”. If you have both “longtermist” and “non-longtermist” I’m not so sure.
maybe we just say “not longermist” rather than trying to make “non-longermist” a label?
Either way, I think we can agree to get rid of ‘neartermist’.