This is an unusual comment for me, since I will talk about religion. The Baha'i Faith claims, at least as it would be expressed in the terminology used here, that something very close to the following are both true: -Strong Longtermism and -The Hinge of History Hypothesis (HOH). Conjoining/conflating these two claims is the position criticized by Will in this blog post, a position which is at least to a certain degree defended by Toby in his comments.
My sense is that the Baha'i Faith strongly agrees with Toby (and probably goes much farther than he ... (read more)
This is an unusual comment for me, since I will talk about religion. The Baha'i Faith claims, at least as it would be expressed in the terminology used here, that something very close to the following are both true:
-Strong Longtermism and
-The Hinge of History Hypothesis (HOH).
Conjoining/conflating these two claims is the position criticized by Will in this blog post, a position which is at least to a certain degree defended by Toby in his comments.
My sense is that the Baha'i Faith strongly agrees with Toby (and probably goes much farther than he ... (read more)