Thanks for the comment! I am aware about the GCRI and GCRs but I don’t see the term getting used much and (in both cases) seem to get conflated with X-risks, but I haven’t addressed this at all in the piece so I will add an edit.
Thanks for catching the typo. I’ve been trying to embed the images but it hasn’t been working, so I’m contacting support for help.
The analogy I was making was that socially held values are liable to change and (usually) improve over time, and any specific value might not disqualify a future civilisation from being counted as valuable by us today, but at some point in the future there may be sufficient drift to make that claim. This may happen gradually and piecemeal as in the ship of Theseus. The full thought experiment also mentions restoration of rotting parts and asks whether these are also the ship of Theseus, similar to a Renaissance period.
Thanks for the comment! I am aware about the GCRI and GCRs but I don’t see the term getting used much and (in both cases) seem to get conflated with X-risks, but I haven’t addressed this at all in the piece so I will add an edit.
Thanks for catching the typo. I’ve been trying to embed the images but it hasn’t been working, so I’m contacting support for help.
The analogy I was making was that socially held values are liable to change and (usually) improve over time, and any specific value might not disqualify a future civilisation from being counted as valuable by us today, but at some point in the future there may be sufficient drift to make that claim. This may happen gradually and piecemeal as in the ship of Theseus. The full thought experiment also mentions restoration of rotting parts and asks whether these are also the ship of Theseus, similar to a Renaissance period.