Yes, and greater GDP maps fairly well to greater effectiveness of altruism. I think you’re focused on downside risks too strongly. They exist, and they are worth mitigating, but inaction due to fear of them will cause far more harm. Inaction due to heckler’s veto is a not a free outcome.
Companies not being loss-limited would not cause them to stop producing x-risks when the literal death of all their humans is an insufficient motivation to discourage them. It would reduce a bunch of other categories of harm, but we’ve converged to accepting that risk to avoid crippling risk aversion in the economy.
Yes, and greater GDP maps fairly well to greater effectiveness of altruism. I think you’re focused on downside risks too strongly. They exist, and they are worth mitigating, but inaction due to fear of them will cause far more harm. Inaction due to heckler’s veto is a not a free outcome.
Companies not being loss-limited would not cause them to stop producing x-risks when the literal death of all their humans is an insufficient motivation to discourage them. It would reduce a bunch of other categories of harm, but we’ve converged to accepting that risk to avoid crippling risk aversion in the economy.