Just to highlight how I am integrating these issues into my own longtermist work:
In my work on refuges I am keenly aware of how choices made will affect different people and cultures in the long-term. The basic question is: Who would survive an ~extinction-level catastrophe?
In some conversations I have had and writing I have read, this question has been seen as more of an opportunity than a challenge: We could perhaps to some degree influence the composition of the people inhabiting these refuges to positively lay the foundation for an egalitarian, pluralistic and tolerant future society. In a few conversations I had we even speculated on the need for as many men as women, as the intervention would look a lot cheaper if genetic diversity could be solved by access to reproductive facilities including a cryobank. What would that do to gender relations in the subsequent, post-catastrophe society?
Just to highlight how I am integrating these issues into my own longtermist work:
In my work on refuges I am keenly aware of how choices made will affect different people and cultures in the long-term. The basic question is: Who would survive an ~extinction-level catastrophe?
In some conversations I have had and writing I have read, this question has been seen as more of an opportunity than a challenge: We could perhaps to some degree influence the composition of the people inhabiting these refuges to positively lay the foundation for an egalitarian, pluralistic and tolerant future society. In a few conversations I had we even speculated on the need for as many men as women, as the intervention would look a lot cheaper if genetic diversity could be solved by access to reproductive facilities including a cryobank. What would that do to gender relations in the subsequent, post-catastrophe society?
This sounds quite interesting, I’d like to learn more about this kind of work! Thanks for sharing.