The Last Step: What Longtermism Is Missing

William MacAskill’s longtermism builds the right telescope with the wrong lens. It sees civilizational survival, value lock-in, viatopia, option space, and the importance of future possibility — but grounds them in moral uncertainty rather than physical constraint. This episode argues for the last step: replace fragile hedging across moral theories with structural analysis. Thermodynamics does not tell us what to value, but it does tell us which value-configurations persist. Flourishing and survival are not separate variables; they converge as sustained syntropy, the safety margin required for civilization to endure.https://kunnas.com/articles/the-last-step