If people ten thousand years ago tried to do things that would be helpful to us today, they wouldn't have succeeded. Why are you confident today's longtermists can offer anything useful to people many generations removed from us?
Obviously EAs have done good work on present-day suffering in the developing world (bed nets, etc.) But in terms of preventing future x-risk from AI, what do you feel that longtermists have concretely accomplished so far?
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