These risks mostly seem like “black swan” risks to us – deleterious but highly unlikely risks.
This effort can end up popularizing a mechanism that incentivizes and funds risky, net-negative projects—in anthropogenic x-risk domains, using EA funding.
Conditional on this effort ending up being extremely impactful, do you really believe the downside risks are “highly unlikely”? (And do you think most of the EA community would agree)?
This effort can end up popularizing a mechanism that incentivizes and funds risky, net-negative projects—in anthropogenic x-risk domains, using EA funding.
Conditional on this effort ending up being extremely impactful, do you really believe the downside risks are “highly unlikely”? (And do you think most of the EA community would agree)?