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Joshua Stein
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The major mcguffin of the book and longtermist approach is that we should treat possible de re future persons as individuals deserving impartial assessment of interests; the "apocalypse scenarios" discussion just sort of abandons that to talk about the de dicto class of civilizations, which is a pretty serious inconsistency and raises problems.
— Oct 04, 2022 10:50AM
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Joshua Stein
is on page 70 of 335
There's some interesting philosophy here, but it's buried in some really weak (to the point of being distracting) pop social science, including both history and sociology. The discussion of slavery and contingency is useful conceptual background on contingency, but it's a mess re: the actual historical issues.
— Sep 30, 2022 07:12AM
