Yeah, I think that’s basically right. I think moral circle expansion (MCE) is closer to your list items than extinction risk reduction (ERR) is because MCE mostly competes in the values space, while ERR mostly competes in the technology space.
However, MCE is competing in a narrower space than just values. It’s in the MC space, which is just the space of advocacy on what our moral circle should look like. So I think it’s fairly distinct from the list items in that sense, though you could still say they’re in the same space because all advocacy competes for news coverage, ad buys, recruiting advocacy-oriented people, etc. (Technology projects could also compete for these things, though there are separations, e.g. journalists with a social beat versus journalists with a tech beat.)
I think the comparably narrow space of ERR is ER, which also includes people who don’t want extinction risk reduced (or even want it increased), such as some hardcore environmentalists, antinatalists, and negative utilitarians.
I think these are legitimate cooperation/coordination perspectives, and it’s not really clear to me how they add up. But in general, I think this matters mostly in situations where you actually can coordinate. For example, in the US general election when Democrats and Republicans come together and agree not to give to their respective campaigns (in exchange for their counterpart also not doing so). Or if there were anti-MCE EAs with whom MCE EAs could coordinate (which I think is basically what you’re saying with “we’d be better off if they both decided to spend the money on anti-malaria bednets”).
Yeah, I think that’s basically right. I think moral circle expansion (MCE) is closer to your list items than extinction risk reduction (ERR) is because MCE mostly competes in the values space, while ERR mostly competes in the technology space.
However, MCE is competing in a narrower space than just values. It’s in the MC space, which is just the space of advocacy on what our moral circle should look like. So I think it’s fairly distinct from the list items in that sense, though you could still say they’re in the same space because all advocacy competes for news coverage, ad buys, recruiting advocacy-oriented people, etc. (Technology projects could also compete for these things, though there are separations, e.g. journalists with a social beat versus journalists with a tech beat.)
I think the comparably narrow space of ERR is ER, which also includes people who don’t want extinction risk reduced (or even want it increased), such as some hardcore environmentalists, antinatalists, and negative utilitarians.
I think these are legitimate cooperation/coordination perspectives, and it’s not really clear to me how they add up. But in general, I think this matters mostly in situations where you actually can coordinate. For example, in the US general election when Democrats and Republicans come together and agree not to give to their respective campaigns (in exchange for their counterpart also not doing so). Or if there were anti-MCE EAs with whom MCE EAs could coordinate (which I think is basically what you’re saying with “we’d be better off if they both decided to spend the money on anti-malaria bednets”).