For what it’s worth, I became a (bad) vegan/vegetarian because at its worst, industrial animal husbandry seems to do some truly terrible things. And sorting out the provenance of animal products is just a major PITA, fraught with all sorts of uncertainly and awkward social moments, such as being the doof at the restaurant who needs to ask five different questions about where/how/when the cow got turned into the steak. It’s just easier for me to order the salad.
My interest in x-risk comes from wanting to work on big/serious problems. I can’t think of a bigger one than x-risk.
For what it’s worth, I became a (bad) vegan/vegetarian because at its worst, industrial animal husbandry seems to do some truly terrible things. And sorting out the provenance of animal products is just a major PITA, fraught with all sorts of uncertainly and awkward social moments, such as being the doof at the restaurant who needs to ask five different questions about where/how/when the cow got turned into the steak. It’s just easier for me to order the salad.
I mainly eat veg foods too. It reduces environmental problems, which helps on gcr/xrisk. And it’s good for livestock welfare, which is still a good thing to help on. And it lowers global food prices, which is good for global poverty. And apparently it’s also healthy.
My interest in x-risk comes from wanting to work on big/serious problems. I can’t think of a bigger one than x-risk.
Yeah, same here. I think the most difficult ethical issue with gcr/xrisk is the idea that other, smaller issues don’t matter so much. It’s like we don’t care about the poor or something like that. What I say here is that no, it’s precisely because we do care about the poor, and everyone else, that it’s so important to reduce these risks. Because unless we avoid catastrophe, nothing else really matters. All that work on all those other issues would be for nothing.
For what it’s worth, I became a (bad) vegan/vegetarian because at its worst, industrial animal husbandry seems to do some truly terrible things. And sorting out the provenance of animal products is just a major PITA, fraught with all sorts of uncertainly and awkward social moments, such as being the doof at the restaurant who needs to ask five different questions about where/how/when the cow got turned into the steak. It’s just easier for me to order the salad.
My interest in x-risk comes from wanting to work on big/serious problems. I can’t think of a bigger one than x-risk.
I mainly eat veg foods too. It reduces environmental problems, which helps on gcr/xrisk. And it’s good for livestock welfare, which is still a good thing to help on. And it lowers global food prices, which is good for global poverty. And apparently it’s also healthy.
Yeah, same here. I think the most difficult ethical issue with gcr/xrisk is the idea that other, smaller issues don’t matter so much. It’s like we don’t care about the poor or something like that. What I say here is that no, it’s precisely because we do care about the poor, and everyone else, that it’s so important to reduce these risks. Because unless we avoid catastrophe, nothing else really matters. All that work on all those other issues would be for nothing.