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I don't know that we can assume that some point A Thousand Years in the future is going to have the same moral political economic or social priorities 00:41:36 as we do
- Good insight on the absurdity of Longtermism from Mary Harrington
- " I don't know that we can assume that some point a Thousand Years in the future
- is going to have the same moral political economic or social priorities
- as we do
- It's very very clear even the most rudimentary grasp of history or literature
- ought to make it clear that
- people a thousand years ago didn't have the same priorities as us now and
- if you can you can frame that difference as progress in our favor
- or as decline in their favor
- but it's it's very clear that Consciousness you've evolved and culture evolves over time and
- there are there are threads of continuity and that's something that you and I both have in common
- tracing some of those lines but
- it's very clear that what how people think about what's important changes tremendously over over even a century,
- let alone over a thousand years
- so I I question the hubris of any movement which claims
- to have a have any kind of handle on on what might matter in 25 000 years time
- I just don't see how you can do that
- it's absurd."
- Good insight on the absurdity of Longtermism from Mary Harrington
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