Oh god, he seems to be milling about the Longtermism crowd, which believes that future (potential) people have as many rights as current people, so any theoretical gains that effect future people are worth doing, even at the expense of current ones,
Billionaires and powerful political people all are jumping on that bullshit.
Pinker keeps a lower profile, but there have been a lot of questionable things he’s said in the past.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/28/steven-pinker-celebrity-scientist-at-the-centre-of-the-culture-wars
Oh god, he seems to be milling about the Longtermism crowd, which believes that future (potential) people have as many rights as current people, so any theoretical gains that effect future people are worth doing, even at the expense of current ones,
Billionaires and powerful political people all are jumping on that bullshit.
Ick. That one is new to me. But it makes a lot of sense.