A fantastically interesting article. I wish I’d seen it earlier—about the time this was published (last February) I was completing an article on “agential risks” that ended up in the Journal of Evolution and Technology. In it, I distinguish between “existential risks” and “stagnation risks,” each of which corresponds to one of the disjuncts in Bostrom’s original definition. Since these have different implications—I argue—for understanding different kinds of agential risks, I think it would be good to standardize the nomenclature. Perhaps “population risks” and “quality risks” are preferable (although I’m not sure “quality risks” and “stagnations risks” have exactly the same extension). Thoughts?
A fantastically interesting article. I wish I’d seen it earlier—about the time this was published (last February) I was completing an article on “agential risks” that ended up in the Journal of Evolution and Technology. In it, I distinguish between “existential risks” and “stagnation risks,” each of which corresponds to one of the disjuncts in Bostrom’s original definition. Since these have different implications—I argue—for understanding different kinds of agential risks, I think it would be good to standardize the nomenclature. Perhaps “population risks” and “quality risks” are preferable (although I’m not sure “quality risks” and “stagnations risks” have exactly the same extension). Thoughts?
(Btw, the JET article is here: http://jetpress.org/v26.2/torres.pdf.)