You make a dichotomy not present in my post, then conflate the two types of interventions while focusing only on AI risk—so that you’re saying that two different kinds of what most people would call extinction reduction efforts are differently tractable—and conclude that there’s a definition confusion.
To respond, first, that has little to do with my argument, but if it’s correct, your problem is with the entire debate week framing, which you think doesn’t present two distinct options, not with my post! And second, look at the other comments which bring up other types of change as quality increasing, and try to do the same analysis, without creating new categories, and you’ll understand what I was saying better.
You make a dichotomy not present in my post, then conflate the two types of interventions while focusing only on AI risk—so that you’re saying that two different kinds of what most people would call extinction reduction efforts are differently tractable—and conclude that there’s a definition confusion.
To respond, first, that has little to do with my argument, but if it’s correct, your problem is with the entire debate week framing, which you think doesn’t present two distinct options, not with my post! And second, look at the other comments which bring up other types of change as quality increasing, and try to do the same analysis, without creating new categories, and you’ll understand what I was saying better.