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The Argument for Long-Termism
Long-termism is about the centuries in the future, thousands of years in the future. We could have a trillion future humans. Even if you accept that, I don't think it follows that we can credibly spend our time and our efforts trying to improve like the future trillions of people lives. It's just fundamentally impossible to know how your actions will affect the world on the course of like a thousand years or longer.