I plan on cross/linkposting some stuff I write that’s EA-adjacent. Most of what I write about, both academically and for a public audience, isn’t EA-adjacent (Metaphysics in the former case, politics/policy in the latter case).
Danny Wardle
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That’s fair. I tend to think of intergenerational justice as synonymous with a weak form of longtermism, although perhaps ‘longtermism’ is too loaded a term (I’m thinking of a bare bones version of “Future generations are worthy of moral consideration”).
I also agree there are reasonable critiques of (stronger forms of) longtermism. I wouldn’t call myself a strong longtermist personally, so I suppose I should’ve been clearer that I’m not making a positive argument for any particular form of longtermism. Rather, my goal is to respond to what I see as some fairly extreme and flat-footed responses to weak longtermism.