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> if we don’t realign our incentives away from maximizing short term profits we may be destroying our future. What does that look like, in practice? It seems
by tqi 3y ago
> if we don’t realign our incentives away from maximizing short term profits we may be destroying our future.
What does that look like, in practice?
It seems to me the magic of Longtermism is that when time horizons can be arbitrarily set, anything that one dislikes or doesn't care about can be dismissed as "short term."
- imtringued 3y agoLongtermists disregard people who only care about the next thousand years, for instance. Surely, at some point the human ability to process information reaches its end right? Talking about millions of years in the future is beyond any individual