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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Longtermism doesn't have to do with one's own personal genetics or lineage, though, and it certainly doesn't belong to Elon.

Longtermism is a notion coming out of population ethics, that since there will be more people in the future than there are today, that we should take the well-being of all those future people into account when making decisions today.

This can be taken in lots of different directions — ranging from humanist environmentalism, to space migration, to concern about exotic existential risks.

But a fixation on one's own personal DNA is not really related to it at all. That's more of a misunderstanding of evolutionary biology.