When I pit depopulation against causes that capture the popular imagination and that take up the most time in contemporary political discourse, I think depopulation scores pretty high as a cause and I am glad it is getting more attention.
When I pit it against causes that the EA movement spends the most time on, including AI x-risk, farmed animal welfare, perhaps even wild animal welfare, and global poverty, I find it hard to justify giving it my considered attention because of the outsized importance of the other problems.
AI x-risk is important because the long term future could be at stake in the next few years or decades. The other two causes are important because billions of people and trillions of animals are experiencing needless suffering now. It’s hard to see depopulation holding a candle to those cause areas.
I would like to see more mainstream funding and attention given to working on depopulation. On the other hand, unless I’m missing something, I would not like to see any funding or human capital diverted from ai x-risk, animal welfare, and global poverty.
When I pit depopulation against causes that capture the popular imagination and that take up the most time in contemporary political discourse, I think depopulation scores pretty high as a cause and I am glad it is getting more attention.
When I pit it against causes that the EA movement spends the most time on, including AI x-risk, farmed animal welfare, perhaps even wild animal welfare, and global poverty, I find it hard to justify giving it my considered attention because of the outsized importance of the other problems.
AI x-risk is important because the long term future could be at stake in the next few years or decades. The other two causes are important because billions of people and trillions of animals are experiencing needless suffering now. It’s hard to see depopulation holding a candle to those cause areas.
I would like to see more mainstream funding and attention given to working on depopulation. On the other hand, unless I’m missing something, I would not like to see any funding or human capital diverted from ai x-risk, animal welfare, and global poverty.