[marginalium]
Against McAskillian Longtermism
10 Jul 2025
Against McAskillian Longtermism:
Whatever is wrong with utilitarians who advocate the murder of a million for a 0.0001 percent reduction in the risk of human extinction, it isn’t a lack of computational power. Morality isn’t made by us—we can’t just decide on the moral truth—but it’s made for us: it rests on our common humanity
See also anti-consequentialism, and anti-utilitarian economics.
Anthologies: Betterment, Thought Architecture, Wealth Architecture, Collective Architecture, On Ethics, On Politics and Power, On Thinking and Reasoning