The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”
So longtermism seems to be basically a crude form of utilitarianism that takes all possible future human-like life forms as input to its happiness calculation? This means it multiples all problems of utilitarianism by the uncertainty of predicting the future.<p>This sound like an insane ethical framework, though I&#x27;m sure the actual writings of longtermists are more nuanced that what is portrayed in the article, I hope.