banteg: longtermist moral math 'doesn't survive an ordinary discount rate'
banteg · x · 2026-09-18
Developer banteg adds his take to the ongoing critique of longtermism: the moral math underpinning longtermist reasoning collapses as soon as you apply an ordinary discount rate to far-future utility — a concise economic rebuttal to arguments that sacrifice the present for quadrillions of future people.
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