Why I Am (Not) a Long-Termist

Aphorisms on a Secular Trend

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The Long-Term is like the Maimonidean conception of God—you know it when you don’t see it.

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The Divine Face, like the distant future, is hidden. But Moses is permitted to see the back of God’s face. Similarly, today’s super-forecasters cannot know the future, but they can see the back of the future.

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Of God we know nothing, says Franz Rosenzweig, but…