“Existential dream” is an interesting alternative. It carries some helpful connotations. However, it doesn’t sound like the kind of thing you can increase or decrease, which makes it less good as the term mirroring “existential risk”.
You seem to be using it closer to the sense of “existential eucatastrophe”. I admit that it’s more grokkable than that!
Okay, I thought x-hope/eucatastrophe were the same thing. I was thinking of “existential dream” for the latter.
For a positive parallel to “risk” that can increase or decrease, I’d use “potentiality”. Potential/potentiality is generally used to refer to something good/beneficial, but I can’t say that “existential potentiality” exactly roles off the tongue!
“Existential dream” is an interesting alternative. It carries some helpful connotations. However, it doesn’t sound like the kind of thing you can increase or decrease, which makes it less good as the term mirroring “existential risk”.
You seem to be using it closer to the sense of “existential eucatastrophe”. I admit that it’s more grokkable than that!
Okay, I thought x-hope/eucatastrophe were the same thing. I was thinking of “existential dream” for the latter.
For a positive parallel to “risk” that can increase or decrease, I’d use “potentiality”. Potential/potentiality is generally used to refer to something good/beneficial, but I can’t say that “existential potentiality” exactly roles off the tongue!
‘Existential opportunity’?
Everything I can think of sounds mercantile: ‘Existential profit’ ‘Existential gain’