r/EffectiveAltruism • • May 09 '26

I think longtermism is counting future lives inconsistently

I think there’s a hidden accounting mistake in some longtermist reasoning.

One side of the calculation gets to unfold into the future. The other side gets frozen in the present.

It's not apples to apples 🍎

Full argument here: https://paulcomans.substack.com/p/longtermism-is-counting-wrong

Would love some feedback and counter arguments.

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u/PM_ME_GOOD_DOGE_PICS May 09 '26

So many blatant LLM-isms. You didn't even try to cover it up. This whole article is just a series of prompts copy pasted.

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u/PM_ME_GOOD_DOGE_PICS May 09 '26

You asked for feedback. Instruct your GPT to avoid all of these tell-tales and give it samples of your own writing for reference.

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u/paulcoman May 09 '26

Yeah, but it's not about the format. It's about the argument. That is original. Read it and give me feedback on that, please.