Also, pandemic prevention in particular may prevent far more human deaths in expectation than just through averting extinction because of non-extinction-level pandemics prevented, so just considering extinction risk reduction might significantly understate it. (But again, this is assuming nonhuman animals don’t flip the sign of the EV.)
Also, pandemic prevention in particular may prevent far more human deaths in expectation than just through averting extinction because of non-extinction-level pandemics prevented, so just considering extinction risk reduction might significantly understate it. (But again, this is assuming nonhuman animals don’t flip the sign of the EV.)