https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/why-short-range-forecasting-can-be-useful-for-longtermism/
Nov 7, 2024 - Most work on forecasting, including most EA work on forecasting, is on short-range forecasting (defined loosely here as timescales of ~1 week – ~3...
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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/nick-bostrom-longtermism-and-the-eternal-return-of-eugenics-2/
Apr 10, 2024 - The techno-utopian ideology gets its fuel, in part, from scientific racism.
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https://www.salon.com/2022/11/20/what-the-sam-bankman-fried-debacle-can-teach-us-about-longtermism/
Nov 20, 2022 - I'm not surprised that longtermism led to fraud, corruption and disaster. I'm mostly surprised it wasn't worse
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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/longtermism-and-eugenics-a-primer/
Feb 7, 2023 - A primer on the intellectual lineage of Nick Bostrom’s retrograde futurism from the early eugenics movement to today.
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https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo
Nov 29, 2024 - It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous
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