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ALT "The ... goal of ten thousand years of history, the thing the human brain craves above all else, and nature will die refusing to give: convenience. Ease is the disease." "The massively parallel online experience will go on, faithful to the tyranny of the place it pretends to escape."
ALT Yes, we will need advanced technologies if we wish to escape Earth before it’s sterilised by the Sun in a billion years or so. But the crucial fact that longtermists miss is that technology is far more likely to cause our extinction before this distant future event than to save us from it. If you, like me, value the continued survival and flourishing of humanity, you should care about the long term but reject the ideology of longtermism,
