Maybe an obvious point, but I think we shouldn’t lose sight of the importance of providing EA funding for catastrophe-preventing interventions, alongside attempts to influence government. Attempts to influence government may fail / fall short of what is needed / take too long given the urgency of action.
Especially in the case of pure longtermist goods, we need to ensure the EA/longtermist movement has enough money to fund things that governments won’t. Should we just get on with developing refuges ourselves?
Maybe an obvious point, but I think we shouldn’t lose sight of the importance of providing EA funding for catastrophe-preventing interventions, alongside attempts to influence government. Attempts to influence government may fail / fall short of what is needed / take too long given the urgency of action.
Yep, agreed!
Should we just get on with developing refuges ourselves?
My impression is that this is being explored. See, e.g., here.
Maybe an obvious point, but I think we shouldn’t lose sight of the importance of providing EA funding for catastrophe-preventing interventions, alongside attempts to influence government. Attempts to influence government may fail / fall short of what is needed / take too long given the urgency of action.
Especially in the case of pure longtermist goods, we need to ensure the EA/longtermist movement has enough money to fund things that governments won’t. Should we just get on with developing refuges ourselves?
Yep, agreed!
My impression is that this is being explored. See, e.g., here.