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`it’s okay to sacrifice some million people for the greater good' So now we will loosel millions of people to climate change for no reason at all. What a relie
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
`it’s okay to sacrifice some million people for the greater good'
So now we will loosel millions of people to climate change for no reason at all. What a relief
- insanejudge 4y agoSeems like for a 'longtermist' something like climate change is such an insignificant blip (and one that will 'inevitably be solved by technology once it becomes a problem ') that it doesn't even bear thinking. I think that's sort of the point though, it makes you sound super duper intellectual and you can do weird stuff on behalf of the 10 million year view while hand waving away responsibility for the near term with futurist fiction.
- smitty1e 4y agoIf your predictions are correct, fine. How exactly we test them on the typical human scale is unclear.
- smitty1e 4y ago> for no reason at all Never underestimate the value of making those in charge feel better about themselves.