Wow-impressive piece of work. This is longer than most journal articles-maybe a record for the EA forum? You had good links to other people discussing the long-term impacts of global catastrophic risk mitigation. I think a major impact of alternate foods is to make the collapse of civilization less likely, meaning less of the nastiness that could get locked into AI. But of course preventing the risk would mean none of that nastiness. It sounds like youāre talking about a different effect, which is that civilization could still be lost, but alternate foods would mean that the minimum population would be higher, meaning a faster recovery. Some of the alternate foods require civilization, but some could be done on a small scale, so this is possible. In this case, alternate foods would still reduce the nastiness, but because recovery would be quicker, I guess it is more likely that the nastiness would not decay out before we get AI.
Wow-impressive piece of work. This is longer than most journal articles-maybe a record for the EA forum? You had good links to other people discussing the long-term impacts of global catastrophic risk mitigation. I think a major impact of alternate foods is to make the collapse of civilization less likely, meaning less of the nastiness that could get locked into AI. But of course preventing the risk would mean none of that nastiness. It sounds like youāre talking about a different effect, which is that civilization could still be lost, but alternate foods would mean that the minimum population would be higher, meaning a faster recovery. Some of the alternate foods require civilization, but some could be done on a small scale, so this is possible. In this case, alternate foods would still reduce the nastiness, but because recovery would be quicker, I guess it is more likely that the nastiness would not decay out before we get AI.