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Crit­i­cism of longter­mism and ex­is­ten­tial risk studies

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Criticism of longtermism and existential risk studies collects critical discussions of longtermism and existential risk studies.

Further reading

Melchin, Denise (2021) Why I am probably not a longtermist, Effective Altruism Forum, September 23.

Tomasik, Brian (2015) Should altruists focus on reducing short-term or far-future suffering?, Essays on Reducing Suffering, February 6 (updated 17 March 2015).

Webb, Duncan (2021) Formalising the “washing out hypothesis”, Effective Altruism Forum, March 25.

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cluelessness | criticism of effective altruism | criticism of effective altruist causes | existential risk | global health and wellbeing | longtermism

Why I am prob­a­bly not a longtermist

D_M_x23 Sep 2021 17:24 UTC
269 points
50 comments8 min readEA link

Ex­cerpts from “Do­ing EA Bet­ter” on x-risk methodology

Eevee🔹26 Jan 2023 1:04 UTC
22 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Dis­cus­sions of Longter­mism should fo­cus on the prob­lem of Unawareness

Jim Buhler20 Oct 2025 13:17 UTC
34 points
1 comment34 min readEA link

Longter­mists are per­ceived as power-seeking

OllieBase20 Jun 2023 8:39 UTC
133 points
43 comments2 min readEA link

Four Con­cerns Re­gard­ing Longtermism

Pat Andriola6 Jun 2022 5:42 UTC
82 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Re­cent Crit­i­cisms of Longtermism

ab13 Dec 2021 13:36 UTC
249 points
31 comments28 min readEA link

A Crit­i­cal Anal­y­sis of “The Case for Strong Longter­mism”

Ze26 Jul 2025 11:50 UTC
2 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ists are already in­sti­tu­tion­al­ists and are do­ing far more than un­work­able longter­mism—A re­sponse to “On the Differ­ences be­tween Eco­mod­ernism and Effec­tive Altru­ism”

jackva21 Feb 2023 18:08 UTC
78 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Is the Far Fu­ture Ir­rele­vant for Mo­ral De­ci­sion-Mak­ing?

Tristan D1 Oct 2024 7:42 UTC
35 points
31 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Mis­takes in the moral math­e­mat­ics of ex­is­ten­tial risk (Part 2: Ig­nor­ing back­ground risk) - Reflec­tive altruism

Eevee🔹3 Jul 2023 6:34 UTC
84 points
7 comments6 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

“Effec­tive Altru­ism, Longter­mism, and the Prob­lem of Ar­bi­trary Power” by Gwilym David Blunt

WobblyPandaPanda12 Nov 2023 1:21 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thephilosopher1923.org)

A re­sponse to Michael Plant’s re­view of What We Owe The Future

JackM4 Oct 2023 23:40 UTC
61 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

The Base Rate of Longter­mism Is Bad

ColdButtonIssues5 Sep 2022 13:29 UTC
233 points
27 comments7 min readEA link

Mone­tary and so­cial in­cen­tives in longter­mist careers

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸23 Sep 2023 21:03 UTC
140 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

A Cri­tique of The Precipice: Chap­ter 6 - The Risk Land­scape [Red Team Challenge]

Sarah Weiler26 Jun 2022 10:59 UTC
57 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

En­light­en­ment Values in a Vuln­er­a­ble World

Maxwell Tabarrok18 Jul 2022 11:54 UTC
66 points
18 comments31 min readEA link

My highly per­sonal skep­ti­cism brain­dump on ex­is­ten­tial risk from ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence.

NunoSempere23 Jan 2023 20:08 UTC
438 points
116 comments14 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

Re­sponse to Tor­res’ ‘The Case Against Longter­mism’

HaydnBelfield8 Mar 2021 18:09 UTC
138 points
73 comments5 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense cases where “hy­po­thet­i­cal fu­ture peo­ple” matter

tlevin12 Aug 2022 14:05 UTC
108 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Tarsney, 2020)

MichaelA🔸4 Apr 2021 3:09 UTC
79 points
27 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Thoughts on “A case against strong longter­mism” (Mas­rani)

MichaelA🔸3 May 2021 14:22 UTC
39 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Re­sponse to re­cent crit­i­cisms of EA “longter­mist” thinking

kbog6 Jan 2020 4:31 UTC
27 points
46 comments11 min readEA link

The Cred­i­bil­ity of Apoca­lyp­tic Claims: A Cri­tique of Techno-Fu­tur­ism within Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Ember16 Aug 2022 19:48 UTC
25 points
35 comments17 min readEA link

For­mal­is­ing the “Wash­ing Out Hy­poth­e­sis”

dwebb25 Mar 2021 11:40 UTC
102 points
27 comments12 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and the strate­gic am­bi­guity of ‘do­ing good’

Jeroen De Ryck 🔹17 Jul 2023 19:24 UTC
81 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(medialibrary.uantwerpen.be)

Var­i­ance of the an­nual con­flict and epi­demic/​pan­demic deaths as a frac­tion of the global population

Vasco Grilo🔸10 Sep 2024 17:02 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Con­cerns/​Thoughts over in­ter­na­tional aid, longter­mism and philo­soph­i­cal notes on speak­ing with Larry Temkin.

Ben Yeoh27 Jul 2022 19:51 UTC
35 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Can a con­flict cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Yet again, not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸19 Jun 2024 16:59 UTC
16 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

Two tools for re­think­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk

Arepo5 Apr 2024 21:25 UTC
82 points
14 comments25 min readEA link

The Long Reflec­tion as the Great Stag­na­tion

Larks1 Sep 2022 20:55 UTC
43 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Non-util­i­tar­ian effec­tive altruism

keir bradwell29 Jan 2023 6:07 UTC
42 points
10 comments17 min readEA link
(keirbradwell.substack.com)

Su­per­vol­ca­noes tail risk has been ex­ag­ger­ated?

Vasco Grilo🔸6 Mar 2024 8:38 UTC
46 points
9 comments8 min readEA link
(journals.ametsoc.org)

Can a ter­ror­ist at­tack cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸2 Dec 2023 8:20 UTC
43 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

David Thorstad12 Aug 2022 14:42 UTC
182 points
67 comments20 min readEA link

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

David Thorstad14 May 2023 11:07 UTC
164 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

[linkpost] “What Are Rea­son­able AI Fears?” by Robin Han­son, 2023-04-23

Arjun Panickssery14 Apr 2023 23:26 UTC
41 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(quillette.com)

Against longter­mism: a care-cen­tric ap­proach?

Aron P2 Oct 2022 5:00 UTC
21 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

I No Longer Feel Com­fortable in EA

disgruntled_ea5 Feb 2023 20:45 UTC
2 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

Nu­clear war tail risk has been ex­ag­ger­ated?

Vasco Grilo🔸25 Feb 2024 9:14 UTC
48 points
24 comments28 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Dan Luu: Fu­tur­ist pre­dic­tion meth­ods and accuracy

Linch15 Sep 2022 21:20 UTC
64 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(danluu.com)

Mis­takes in the moral math­e­mat­ics of ex­is­ten­tial risk (Part 1: In­tro­duc­tion and cu­mu­la­tive risk) - Reflec­tive altruism

Eevee🔹3 Jul 2023 6:33 UTC
74 points
6 comments6 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

Re­duc­ing the neart­erm risk of hu­man ex­tinc­tion is not as­tro­nom­i­cally cost-effec­tive?

Vasco Grilo🔸9 Jun 2024 8:02 UTC
21 points
37 comments8 min readEA link

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC
226 points
41 comments19 min readEA link

Datasets that change the odds you exist

Vasco Grilo🔸24 May 2025 17:28 UTC
16 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(dynomight.net)

Nu­clear war is un­likely to cause hu­man extinction

Jeffrey Ladish7 Nov 2020 5:39 UTC
61 points
27 comments11 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional risk of food in­se­cu­rity and mass mor­tal­ity in a run­away global warm­ing scenario

Vasco Grilo🔸2 Sep 2023 7:28 UTC
15 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Why haven’t we seen a promis­ing longter­mist in­ter­ven­tion yet?

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸18 Dec 2025 8:54 UTC
7 points
24 comments4 min readEA link

De­bat­ing Vasco Grilo About Soil Ne­ma­todes

Bentham's Bulldog20 Nov 2025 15:03 UTC
35 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Which World Gets Saved

trammell9 Nov 2018 18:08 UTC
157 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Why doesn’t WWOTF men­tion the Bronze Age Col­lapse?

Eevee🔹19 Sep 2022 6:29 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­perts’ AI timelines are longer than you have been told?

Vasco Grilo🔸9 Jan 2025 17:30 UTC
38 points
15 comments3 min readEA link
(bayes.net)

Pro­posal: Create A New Longter­mism Organization

Brian Lui7 Feb 2023 5:59 UTC
25 points
37 comments6 min readEA link

Longter­mists should take cli­mate change very seriously

Nir Eyal3 Oct 2022 18:33 UTC
29 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Fu­ture peo­ple might not ex­ist

Indra Gesink 🔸30 Nov 2022 19:17 UTC
18 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

A “Solip­sis­tic” Repug­nant Conclusion

Ramiro21 Jul 2022 16:06 UTC
13 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

“Prona­tal­ists” may look to co-opt effec­tive al­tru­ism or longtermism

pseudonym17 Nov 2022 21:04 UTC
34 points
25 comments4 min readEA link
(www.businessinsider.com)

Sum­ma­riz­ing the com­ments on William MacAskill’s NYT opinion piece on longtermism

West21 Sep 2022 17:46 UTC
106 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Maybe longter­mism isn’t for everyone

Eevee🔹10 Feb 2023 16:48 UTC
39 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

A case against fo­cus­ing on tail-end nu­clear war risks

Sarah Weiler16 Nov 2022 6:08 UTC
32 points
15 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] Will the vast ma­jor­ity of tech­nolog­i­cal progress hap­pen in the longterm fu­ture?

Vasco Grilo🔸8 Jul 2023 8:40 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Imi­ta­tion Learn­ing is Prob­a­bly Ex­is­ten­tially Safe

Vasco Grilo🔸30 Apr 2024 17:06 UTC
19 points
7 comments3 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Utili­tar­i­anism and the re­place­abil­ity of de­sires and attachments

Michael St Jules 🔸27 Jul 2024 1:57 UTC
35 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

A longter­mist cri­tique of “The ex­pected value of ex­tinc­tion risk re­duc­tion is pos­i­tive”

Anthony DiGiovanni1 Jul 2021 21:01 UTC
155 points
10 comments32 min readEA link

Hu­man Em­pow­er­ment ver­sus the Longter­mist Im­perium?

Jackson Wagner21 Oct 2025 10:24 UTC
20 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

Re­think­ing longter­mism and global development

Eevee🔹2 Sep 2022 5:28 UTC
10 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

Prior prob­a­bil­ity of this be­ing the most im­por­tant century

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Jul 2023 7:18 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Can a war cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Once again, not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸25 Jan 2024 7:56 UTC
67 points
29 comments18 min readEA link

Ex­ag­ger­at­ing the risks (Part 13: Ord on Biorisk)

Vasco Grilo🔸31 Dec 2023 8:45 UTC
57 points
18 comments13 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

21 crit­i­cisms of EA I’m think­ing about

Peter Wildeford1 Sep 2022 19:28 UTC
210 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

[Link post] Op­ti­mistic “Longter­mism” Is Ter­rible For Animals

BrianK6 Sep 2022 22:38 UTC
50 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.forbes.com)

Why “Solv­ing Align­ment” Is Likely a Cat­e­gory Mistake

Nate Sharpe6 May 2025 20:56 UTC
49 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

The Frag­ility of Naive Dynamism

Davidmanheim19 May 2025 7:53 UTC
10 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

An Evolu­tion­ary Ar­gu­ment un­der­min­ing Longter­mist think­ing?

Jim Buhler3 Mar 2025 14:47 UTC
31 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Perché prob­a­bil­mente non sono una lungoterminista

EA Italy17 Jan 2023 18:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

On think­ing about AI risks concretely

zeshen🔸11 Jul 2025 0:23 UTC
16 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Dra­co­nian mea­sures can in­crease the risk of ir­re­vo­ca­ble catastrophe

dsj23 Sep 2025 21:40 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(thedavidsj.substack.com)

Even af­ter GPT-4, AI re­searchers fore­casted a 50% chance of AGI by 2047 or 2116, de­pend­ing how you define AGI

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸28 Oct 2025 16:55 UTC
18 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

2. Why in­tu­itive com­par­i­sons of large-scale im­pact are unjustified

Anthony DiGiovanni2 Jun 2025 8:54 UTC
36 points
7 comments16 min readEA link

We can’t put num­bers on ev­ery­thing and try­ing to weak­ens our col­lec­tive epistemics

ConcernedEAs8 Mar 2023 15:09 UTC
9 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Should strong longter­mists re­ally want to min­i­mize ex­is­ten­tial risk?

tobycrisford 🔸4 Dec 2022 16:56 UTC
46 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

A cri­tique of EA’s fo­cus on longtermism

Remus Rimbu23 Oct 2025 18:16 UTC
9 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

If We Can’t End Fac­tory Farm­ing, Can We Really Shape the Far Fu­ture?

Krimsey17 Oct 2025 16:48 UTC
25 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

Re­think­ing Ex­pected Value: Why Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Huge Out­comes Aren’t Equiv­a­lent to Cer­tain Ones

tootlife21 Jun 2025 19:05 UTC
4 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

On longter­mism, Bayesi­anism, and the dooms­day argument

iporphyry1 Sep 2022 0:27 UTC
30 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing Cul­tural Adap­ta­tion and the Limits of Progress Metrics

alexeusgr16 Sep 2025 2:41 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Rad­i­cal Longter­mism and the Se­duc­tion of End­less Growth: A Cri­tique of William MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe the Fu­ture’

Alexander Herwix 🔸14 Sep 2023 14:43 UTC
−13 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(perspecteeva.substack.com)

A pro­posed hi­er­ar­chy of longter­mist concepts

Arepo30 Oct 2022 16:26 UTC
38 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Re­marks about Longter­mism in­spired by Tor­res’s ‘Against Longter­mism’

carboniferous_umbraculum2 Feb 2022 16:20 UTC
43 points
0 comments24 min readEA link

Talk­ing about longter­mism isn’t very important

cb20 Oct 2025 13:15 UTC
36 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Crit­i­cal Re­view of ‘The Precipice’: A Re­assess­ment of the Risks of AI and Pandemics

James Fodor11 May 2020 11:11 UTC
111 points
32 comments26 min readEA link

When Has the World Ever Been Net Pos­i­tive?

Krimsey18 Sep 2025 14:17 UTC
10 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Think­ing be­yond the long-term

Alexander Caro14 Oct 2025 11:56 UTC
6 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

David Thorstad15 Dec 2024 16:05 UTC
98 points
12 comments11 min readEA link

A Cri­tique of Longter­mism by Pop­u­lar YouTube Science Chan­nel, Sabine Hossen­felder: “Elon Musk & The Longter­mists: What Is Their Plan?”

Ram Aditya29 Oct 2022 17:31 UTC
61 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Epistemics (Part 10: The non­triv­ial prob­a­bil­ity gam­bit) | Reflec­tive Altruism

Unofficial Reflective Altruism Cross-Poster26 Dec 2025 18:29 UTC
25 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(reflectivealtruism.com)

[Linkpost] Eric Sch­witzgebel: Against Longtermism

ag40006 Jan 2022 14:15 UTC
41 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What do you think the vi­sion is be­hind our biggest crit­ics?

aprilsun1 Aug 2023 18:49 UTC
29 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Why We Can’t Align AI Un­til We Align Ourselves

mag21 Oct 2025 16:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readEA link

An epistemic cri­tique of longtermism

Nathan_Barnard10 Jul 2022 10:59 UTC
12 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

The rea­son­able­ness of spe­cial concerns

jwt29 Aug 2022 0:10 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Two ar­gu­ments against pa­tient philanthropy

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸11 Dec 2025 21:26 UTC
16 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Some mis­takes in think­ing about AGI evolu­tion and control

Remmelt1 Aug 2025 8:08 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is There Ac­tu­ally a Stan­dard or Con­vinc­ing Re­sponse to David Thorstad’s Crit­i­cisms of the Value of X-Risk Re­duc­tion and of Longter­mism?

David Mathers🔸21 May 2025 11:58 UTC
117 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

A Case Against Strong Longtermism

A. Wolff2 Sep 2022 16:40 UTC
10 points
4 comments39 min readEA link

Nu­clear win­ter scepticism

Vasco Grilo🔸13 Aug 2023 10:55 UTC
110 points
42 comments10 min readEA link
(www.navalgazing.net)

Longter­mism and the Challenge of In­finity: Con­fronting In­fini­tar­ian Paral­y­sis (In re­sponse to Longter­mism in an In­finite World (by Chris­tian Tarsney & Hay­den Wilkinson

Yetty18 Sep 2025 12:08 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Against Longter­mism: I wel­come our robot over­lords, and you should too!

MattBall2 Jul 2022 2:05 UTC
5 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

A cri­tique of strong longtermism

Pablo Rosado28 Aug 2022 19:33 UTC
15 points
11 comments14 min readEA link

Tech­nol­ogy’s Dou­ble Edge: Re­assess­ing Longter­mist Pri­ori­ties in an Age of Ex­po­nen­tial Innovation

Ray Raven13 Sep 2025 18:32 UTC
5 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

A per­spec­tive on the dan­ger/​hypocrisy in pri­ori­tiz­ing one sin­gle long term risk, and ig­nore ev­ery other risk

yz28 May 2025 5:29 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Ver­ifi­ca­tion Gap: A Scien­tific Warn­ing on the Limits of AI Safety

Ihor Ivliev24 Jun 2025 19:08 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Sen­si­tive as­sump­tions in longter­mist modeling

Owen Murphy18 Sep 2024 1:39 UTC
82 points
12 comments7 min readEA link
(ohmurphy.substack.com)

Longter­mism and the Prob­lem of Alie­na­tion: A Re­sponse to “Authen­tic­ity, Mean­ing, and Alie­na­tion: Rea­sons to Care Less About Far-Fu­ture Peo­ple”

Simran Puri21 Oct 2025 16:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments17 min readEA link

A Se­quence Against Strong Longter­mism

vadmas22 Jul 2021 20:07 UTC
20 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Brief notes on key limi­ta­tions in Mo­gensen’s Max­i­mal Cluelessness

Jim Buhler8 Sep 2025 13:28 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Longter­mism of Bore­dom: Will the far fu­ture ac­tu­ally be worth liv­ing if we solve suffer­ing?

Melanie Banerjee3 Oct 2025 14:25 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Longter­mism- An­i­mals and Depopulation

Isla Shiner20 Oct 2025 15:48 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Against longtermism

Brian Lui11 Aug 2022 5:37 UTC
38 points
30 comments6 min readEA link

Per­sis­tence, Not Pro­jec­tion: The Case for Loop Main­te­nance over Longtermism

Emergence10119 Oct 2025 10:13 UTC
1 point
5 comments9 min readEA link

In­com­men­su­ra­bil­ity and In­tran­si­tivity in Longter­mism: A Plu­ral­ist Reframe (with a note on why art mat­ters)

Ben Yeoh3 Oct 2025 11:39 UTC
5 points
0 comments21 min readEA link

Will longter­mists self-efface

Noah Scales12 Aug 2022 2:32 UTC
−7 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

Longter­mist (es­pe­cially x-risk) ter­minol­ogy has bi­as­ing assumptions

Arepo30 Oct 2022 16:26 UTC
70 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

A Gen­tle In­tro­duc­tion to Risk Frame­works Beyond Forecasting

pending_survival11 Apr 2024 9:15 UTC
83 points
4 comments27 min readEA link

Con­cepts of ex­is­ten­tial catastrophe

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Apr 2024 17:16 UTC
11 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Pru­den­tial longter­mism is de­fanged by the strat­egy of pro­cras­ti­na­tion — and that’s not all

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸6 Nov 2025 17:42 UTC
13 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Without Align­ment, Is Longter­mism (and Thus, EA) Just Noise?

Krimsey17 Oct 2025 20:05 UTC
3 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

EA is more than longtermism

frances_lorenz3 May 2022 15:18 UTC
160 points
99 comments5 min readEA link

Eter­nal Fu­tures and Finite Agency: A Me­ta­phys­i­cal Challenge to Longtermism

emmadalbianco18 Oct 2025 23:51 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Phil Tor­res on Against Longtermism

Group Organizer13 Jan 2022 6:04 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readEA link

Three Open Flanks of Longtermism

ManfredKohler6 Oct 2025 13:37 UTC
1 point
0 comments11 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: Stak­ing our fu­ture: de­on­tic long-ter­mism and the non-iden­tity prob­lem (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities Institute7 Jun 2022 13:14 UTC
25 points
6 comments6 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

“Es­say on Longter­mism” com­pe­ti­tion. A re­spond to Chap­ter 10, “What Are the Prospects of Fore­cast­ing the Far Fu­ture?” by David Rhys Bernard and Eva Vi­valt, from Es­says on Longter­mism: Pre­sent Ac­tion for the Dis­tant Fu­ture.

Bavertov27 Sep 2025 10:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

Three er­rors in the moral calcu­la­tions con­cern­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk.

jun1233 Aug 2023 11:47 UTC
−9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Curse of Sta­si­sism: Why Bri­tain and Amer­ica Are Bury­ing Their Own En­light­en­ment Le­ga­cyUn­ti­tled Draft

蒲渠波6 Oct 2025 13:29 UTC
−12 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

More Every­thing For­ever—a new book cri­tique of EA

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹6 Jun 2025 9:53 UTC
52 points
17 comments7 min readEA link

Op­ti­mism, AI risk, and EA blind spots

Justis28 Sep 2022 17:21 UTC
87 points
21 comments8 min readEA link

Longter­mism: An Im­prac­ti­ca­ble At­tempt to Rea­son Our Way into Be­com­ing Ir­ra­tionally Gen­er­ous Heroes?

Fr Peter Wyg15 Oct 2025 8:22 UTC
90 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

Carnegie Coun­cil MisUn­der­stands Longtermism

Jeff A30 Sep 2022 2:57 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.carnegiecouncil.org)

#203 – In­terfer­ing with wild na­ture, ac­cept­ing death, and the ori­gin of com­plex civil­i­sa­tion (Peter God­frey-Smith on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours4 Oct 2024 13:00 UTC
14 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

St. Peters­burg De­mon – a thought ex­per­i­ment that makes me doubt Longter­mism

wuschel23 May 2022 11:49 UTC
48 points
39 comments2 min readEA link

Phil Tor­res’ ar­ti­cle: “The Danger­ous Ideas of ‘Longter­mism’ and ‘Ex­is­ten­tial Risk’”

Ben_Eisenpress6 Aug 2021 7:19 UTC
6 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Talk: Longter­mism, the “Spirit” of Digi­tal Capitalism

ludwigbald5 Jan 2025 14:27 UTC
−2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(media.ccc.de)

Nu­clear Fine-Tun­ing: How Many Wor­lds Have Been De­stroyed?

Ember17 Aug 2022 13:13 UTC
18 points
28 comments23 min readEA link

EA as An­tichrist: Un­der­stand­ing Peter Thiel

Ben_West🔸6 Aug 2025 17:31 UTC
115 points
54 comments14 min readEA link

Thread on LT/​ut’s prefer­ence for billions of im­mi­nent deaths

Peter_Layman14 Sep 2022 15:44 UTC
−16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(twitter.com)

The Case for Short­ter­mism—by Robert Wright

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)16 Aug 2022 20:00 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzero.substack.com)

Quick take­aways from Griffes’ Do­ing good while clueless

Jim Buhler7 Aug 2025 9:59 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

What if we just…didn’t build AGI? An Ar­gu­ment Against Inevitability

Nate Sharpe10 May 2025 3:34 UTC
64 points
21 comments14 min readEA link
(natezsharpe.substack.com)

Is It So Much to Ask for a Nice Reli­able Ag­gre­gated X-Risk Fore­cast?

MichaelDickens13 Jul 2025 20:01 UTC
29 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(mdickens.me)

Sum­mary: Max­i­mal Clue­less­ness (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Noah Varley🔸6 Feb 2024 14:49 UTC
40 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

But Have They En­gaged With The Ar­gu­ments? [Linkpost]

Sharmake14 Sep 2025 17:39 UTC
29 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(philiptrammell.com)
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