Neartermist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A believer or follower of neartermism.
"Longtermists are in daily conversation with neartermists. It’s a red herring to argue that “abandoning what would most help people on Earth today isn’t exactly ethically sound.”"
- 1 Of, pertaining to or supporting neartermism. not-comparable
"But last summer Bankman-Fried was telling The New Yorker’s Gideon Lewis-Kraus something quite different. “He told me that he never had a bed-nets phase, and considered neartermist causes — global health and poverty — to be more emotionally driven,” Lewis-Kraus wrote in August."
Example
More examples"Longtermists are in daily conversation with neartermists. It’s a red herring to argue that “abandoning what would most help people on Earth today isn’t exactly ethically sound.”"
Etymology
From near-term + -ist.
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