Longtermism is increasingly viewed as a respectable moral movement; one of its best-known proponents is Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institu

Longtermism is increasingly viewed as a respectable moral movement; one of its best-known proponents is Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, which received a $10M donation from Elon Musk. You can read more about longtermism (and some of the really bizarre views its adherents espouse) in this Current Affairs piece: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-of-longtermism-and-existential-risk https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-o...