This is a link collection for content relevant to my post published since, for ease of reference.
Focusing on the empirical arguments to prioritise x-risks instead of philosophical ones (which I could not be more supportive of):
Carl Shulman’s 80,000hours podcast on the common sense case for existential risk
Scott Alexander writing about the terms long-termism and existential risks
On the definition of existential risk (as I find Bostrom’s definition dubious):
Linch asking how existential risk should be defined
Based on this comment thread in a different question by Linch
Zoe’s paper which also has other stuff I have not yet read in full
How GCBRs could remain a solved problem, thereby getting us closer to existential security:
A blogpost by Carl which cross-posted to the EA Forum later than it was published on the blog
This is a link collection for content relevant to my post published since, for ease of reference.
Focusing on the empirical arguments to prioritise x-risks instead of philosophical ones (which I could not be more supportive of):
Carl Shulman’s 80,000hours podcast on the common sense case for existential risk
Scott Alexander writing about the terms long-termism and existential risks
On the definition of existential risk (as I find Bostrom’s definition dubious):
Linch asking how existential risk should be defined
Based on this comment thread in a different question by Linch
Zoe’s paper which also has other stuff I have not yet read in full
How GCBRs could remain a solved problem, thereby getting us closer to existential security:
A blogpost by Carl which cross-posted to the EA Forum later than it was published on the blog