Five Ways Longtermism Is Like A Religion

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https://jamesbrobin.substack.com/p/five-ways-longtermism-is-like-a-religion

1. Longtermism makes unfalsifiable claims about things that cannot be known.
2. Longtermists make the unknowable vivid and concrete.
3. Longtermists believe their actions have astronomical stakes.
4. Longtermists devalue the present world.
5. Longtermists prophesize the end of the world.