Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
“Long-term thinking” (ordinary usage version, not the longtermism cult) strikes me as a “lazy thoughtfulness” meme repeated by people who haven’t actually thought at all about temporal horizons but want to signal they’re on the side of wisdom and thoughtfulness over impulsivity and weakness of character
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I’m mostly a very short-term thinker. And when I do think about things that involve long time constants or distant horizons, the scaffolding is not particularly different. 2+2=4 whether it you’re counting weeks or centuries. What’s different is your patterns of care. Long-term caring not thinking.
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