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by gautamcgoel 5y ago
See here:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-of-longtermism-and-existential-risk https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-o...
- ouid 5y agoThe premise of directing humanity's resources to avoid existential risk is indeed a very noble pursuit. Which is why I suspect it's been coopted by the climate deniers. It's a form of SEO in which the people who have coopted the title "existential risk avoiders" get to uncorrelate it from the only salient existential risk that humanity faces.