Has anyone, to your knowledge, assessed the chances that an energy descent (“Most Underrated EA Forum Post in 2022”) poses a significant global catastrophic risk? If not, who should look into that? If yes, what were the outcomes and how do/should they change EA’s priorities?
I think the idea of an energy descent is extremely far outside the expert consensus on the topic, as Robin discusses at length in his replies to that post.
Has anyone, to your knowledge, assessed the chances that an energy descent (“Most Underrated EA Forum Post in 2022”) poses a significant global catastrophic risk? If not, who should look into that? If yes, what were the outcomes and how do/should they change EA’s priorities?
Not that I know of, but my colleage @jackva may have more to say here
I think the idea of an energy descent is extremely far outside the expert consensus on the topic, as Robin discusses at length in his replies to that post.
This is nothing we need to worry about.