If long-termism is correct, and if some people alive today live to enjoy the benefits of radical life extension, then it’s always seemed to me that the lived experiences of long-termist altruists would have significant historical value. That is, an advanced future society may well have the ability to extract and experience memories from said individuals (with, I hope, their consent). The closest fictional illustration of this would be: sharing memories via a pensieve.
And I do think these two premises are plausible, and so I have occasionally felt not only the eyes of the future on our era—and perhaps on myself—but I have also imagined and felt the eyes of the future looking out through my own.
If long-termism is correct, and if some people alive today live to enjoy the benefits of radical life extension, then it’s always seemed to me that the lived experiences of long-termist altruists would have significant historical value. That is, an advanced future society may well have the ability to extract and experience memories from said individuals (with, I hope, their consent). The closest fictional illustration of this would be: sharing memories via a pensieve.
And I do think these two premises are plausible, and so I have occasionally felt not only the eyes of the future on our era—and perhaps on myself—but I have also imagined and felt the eyes of the future looking out through my own.