“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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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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I saw post you shared on substack. Didn’t like it. Conscientious but not even wrong. Mis-analysis of Kacyzinski as though his problem was audience capture of a sound critique. Basic presumptions of decline and evil attention capture is bs. Reads like NRx-lite apologia for “real terrorism has never been tried”??

Long term games (stay in the game) feels like a better frame. Forces you to stay focused on short term anyway.

Love it! Do you also suggest to make decision(s) based on your short-term thinking? Or based on what you care for in long-term?