This might be the best strategy if we’re all eventually doomed. Although it might turn out that the tech required to colonize planets comes after a bunch of black balls. At least like nuclear rockets and some bio-tech stuff seems likely.
Even Bostrom doesn’t think we’re inevitably doomed though. He just thinks that global government is the only escape hatch.
Max and Sharmake, note that Bostrom does not claim in this piece (or anywhere, as far as I know) that the vulnerable world hypothesis is true. So “global government is the only escape hatch” isn’t really his position. (Also note that we could have strong domain-specific global governance without a global government.)
This might be the best strategy if we’re all eventually doomed. Although it might turn out that the tech required to colonize planets comes after a bunch of black balls. At least like nuclear rockets and some bio-tech stuff seems likely.
Even Bostrom doesn’t think we’re inevitably doomed though. He just thinks that global government is the only escape hatch.
Max and Sharmake, note that Bostrom does not claim in this piece (or anywhere, as far as I know) that the vulnerable world hypothesis is true. So “global government is the only escape hatch” isn’t really his position. (Also note that we could have strong domain-specific global governance without a global government.)
Which is essentially in his perspective, we are utterly doomed barring technological stagnation.
We can’t win: Either we get a bang x-risk from individuals, or we get a stable x-risk from states.