I'm listening to #WilliamMacAskill's #WhatWeOweTheFuture. As an #AnimalRights advocate, I appreciate his inclusion of animals in the moral universe. I also find myself frustrated by the levels of presumption that seem to plague popular works of #MoralPhilosophy. Not everything he views as a conflict is intrinsically an unsolvable "paradox," and his predictions about the future are, to put it mildly, hubristic. Sometimes we just don't know what we don't know. A little humility can go a long way.

Another thank you to @timnitGebru this time for a retweet of the following Twitter thread with yet more things wrong with #WhatWeOweTheFuture - I sure dodged a bullet

The thread summarises this by Émile P Torres:
https://thebulletin.org/2022/11/what-longtermism-gets-wrong-about-climate-change/#post-heading

Wow! A timely toot from the amazing @timnitGebru has led me to this confirmation of my suspicions:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-of-longtermism-and-existential-risk

I think I can stop wasting my time on #WhatWeOweTheFuture