then let's jump down to the conclusion of the article:

In fact, as a recent UN Dispatch article notes, the United Nations itself is already becoming an arm of the longtermist community:

The foreign policy community in general and the … United Nations in particular are beginning to embrace longtermism. Next year at the opening of the UN General Assembly in September 2023, the Secretary General is hosting what he is calling a Summit of the Future to bring these ideas to the center of debate at the United Nations.

This point was driven home in a podcast interview with MacAskill linked to the article. According to MacAskill, the upcoming summit could help "mainstream" the longtermist ideology, doing for it what the first "Earth Day" did for the environmental movement in 1970. Imagine, then, a world in which longtermism — the sorts of ideas discussed above — become as common and influential as environmentalism is today. Bankman-Fried and the others are hoping for exactly this outcome.

And then let's look at what the UN is actually talking about with their "Summit of the Future" here and here (PDF).

I really struggle to find any of the "the sorts of ideas discussed above" (as the author said) in these descriptions. And the idea that the United Nations itself is already becoming an arm of the longtermist community sounds fucking nuts. Especially when we're supposed to believe that the "longtermist community" is really a handful of guys running a thinktank in Oxford. The UN is already becoming an arm of this??

Seriously, how is anyone supposed to take this seriously?