The Longter­mism (Philos­o­phy) tag is for posts about philo­soph­i­cal mat­ters rele­vant to longter­mism, mean­ing, roughly, “an eth­i­cal view that is par­tic­u­larly con­cerned with en­sur­ing long-run out­comes go well” (MacAskill). Longter­mism is a rel­a­tively new idea, and peo­ple in the EA move­ment cur­rently work on a wide range of open ques­tions re­lated to differ­ent facets of longter­mism.

For posts about what the long-term fu­ture might ac­tu­ally look like, see Long-Term Fu­ture. For posts about spe­cific longter­mist cause ar­eas, see other tags such as Ex­is­ten­tial Risk.