Your impression of the default framing aligns with what I’ve heard from folks! In addition to the benefits of changing humanity’s trajectory, there’s also an argument that we should pursue systems change for the factors that are driving existential risk in the first place, in addition to addressing it from a research-focused angle. That’s the argument of this article on meta existential risk!
Your impression of the default framing aligns with what I’ve heard from folks! In addition to the benefits of changing humanity’s trajectory, there’s also an argument that we should pursue systems change for the factors that are driving existential risk in the first place, in addition to addressing it from a research-focused angle. That’s the argument of this article on meta existential risk!