Thanks, I thought these were useful comments, particularly about the longer-term influence of big ideas (neoliberalism etc).
I would be interested in reading/​skimming the Thorstad papers you refer to, where are they? I found https://​​onlinelibrary.wiley.com/​​doi/​​full/​​10.1111/​​papa.12248 which is presumably one of them. Do they have EA Forum versions, and if not do you know if David planning to put them up as such? Seems potentially valuable.
Thanks, I thought these were useful comments, particularly about the longer-term influence of big ideas (neoliberalism etc). I would be interested in reading/​skimming the Thorstad papers you refer to, where are they? I found https://​​onlinelibrary.wiley.com/​​doi/​​full/​​10.1111/​​papa.12248 which is presumably one of them. Do they have EA Forum versions, and if not do you know if David planning to put them up as such? Seems potentially valuable.
I took Nathan to be referring to https://​​globalprioritiesinstitute.org/​​david-thorstad-three-mistakes-in-the-moral-mathematics-of-existential-risk/​​ and https://​​globalprioritiesinstitute.org/​​david-thorstad-high-risk-low-reward-a-challenge-to-the-astronomical-value-of-existential-risk-mitigation/​​ -- Thorstad’s blog (https://​​ineffectivealtruismblog.com/​​) has some summaries/​​further discussion, so far as I remember.