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How the Simulation Argument Dampens Future Fanaticism – Center on Long-Term Risk (longtermrisk.org)

submitted 1 year ago by tetranomos@awful.systems to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Combined with general model uncertainty, it seems premature to conclude that far-future-focused actions dominate short-term helping. It's likely that the far future will still dominate after more thorough analysis, but by much less than a naive future fanatic would have thought.

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[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oh can that hubris. it's because you insist on posturing diagnoses like you are a doctor. now you're here diagnosing "loneliness" when it is an epidemic. it's easy for anybody to bandy about cheap epistemic postures when they're the writing on the wall. what you are [doing] is insincere.