Neartermist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Neartermist is a noun meaning (ethics, philosophy) A believer or follower of neartermism.
Meaning
(ethics, philosophy) A believer or follower of neartermism.
More Meanings
- (ethics, philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting neartermism.
Example Sentences
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.”
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.
Word Forms
- neartermists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include longtermist, short-termist, mindist, nanoethicist, terminist, presentist.
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