Micro and Macro Myths Prohibiting Longtermism

We are surrounded by myths. Shared beliefs about things that don’t exist. Things that have proven to be untrue but that our minds have a hard time letting go of.

The existence and potential dissolution of these myths tie to many of the foundational concepts of RBLT. Their dissolution is aided by vipassana meditation as well as rational thinking and their dissolution would serve to encourage more longtermism and reduced suffering, on the micro level of individuals as well as the macro level of humanity. Shattering them, seeing through the illusions that underpin them, not only offers us a chance to live more rationally in our individual lives, the dissolution of each and any of these myths could also reduce existential risk and increase optionality for humanity to thrive in the long term.

We only need to spend a few minutes in introspection to see how everything is impermanent, and that, amidst all the change, there can not be a self. It is important to see through and dissolve this illusion, since many of our individual…

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