I’m currently reading Adam Becker’s book More Everything Forever and you should too….just jaw dropping
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question: when thinking about maximising 'good' for future generations isn't it those generations' sense of `good' that is relevant, not mine?
how does longtermism deal with this issue?
unless you assume that the relevant `good' is universal that seems like a major difficulty....
and if you assume what is `good' is universal, how is that and how do you know that, and isn't that what ethics would need to tell you?
@UlrikeHahn Longtermism is a sure sign that someone has read too many SF books from the 1960s to 1980s.
@UlrikeHahn and utilitarianism in itself is absurd. Don’t know who needed an even more extremely absurd version… the idea to „measure“ the good of a deed … and now to even measure the potential future good of a deed.
Philosophy in schools and universities should be obligatory
@codingGarden well, some of the people promoting longtermism *are* philosophers, so there’s many ways thinking can go wrong…
@UlrikeHahn I'm reading both "Nerd Reich" and "End-Time Fascism." With Becker, they make a horrific trilogy...
longtermism is the reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism