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Why? The author explains what longtermism is, at least their perspective of it, but then makes the jump to 'in conclusion, it's bad for humanity' without ever quite touching on WHY it's bad (having a few key followers with questionable ethics is insufficient, you can do that about ANY major belief)
Probably because it ignores issues that are relevant right now in favor of some theoretical distant future which will probably never pan out.
How so? To plan for the future requires that you survive the present. I doubt anybody is saying 'screw global warming, I'll be fine in a cpu'.
You'd be surprised what the tech billionaires are saying right now. They are definitely not tackling the problems of today, but are creating new ones by the minute.