it’s not obvious that undifferentiated scientific progress is net bad either. Scientific progress increases our wealth and allows for us to spend a larger fraction on safety than we otherwise would. I’d much prefer to live in a world where we can afford both nukes and safety measures, than the world in which we only could afford the nukes.
Scientific progress has been the root of so much progress, I think we should have a strong prior that more of it is good!
it’s not obvious that undifferentiated scientific progress is net bad either. Scientific progress increases our wealth and allows for us to spend a larger fraction on safety than we otherwise would. I’d much prefer to live in a world where we can afford both nukes and safety measures, than the world in which we only could afford the nukes.
Scientific progress has been the root of so much progress, I think we should have a strong prior that more of it is good!
See discussion here.