neartermist

English

Etymology

From near-term +‎ -ist.

Noun

neartermist (plural neartermists)

1. (ethics, philosophy) A believer or follower of neartermism.

   Coordinate term: longtermist

   • 2022 September 9, Theodore Leinwand, “Neartermism and longtermism aren’t at odds”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     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.”

Adjective

neartermist (not comparable)

1. (ethics, philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting neartermism.

   Coordinate term: longtermist

   • 2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     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.