What about x-risks? Do you think it would be helpful to frame the importance of protecting/enabling the future existence of vast numbers of happy people in terms of justice? Perhaps an argument can be made that it isn’t fair to future/current generations that they aren’t given the opportunity to exist/continue to exist? This is obviously a more difficult case given that there would be no stakeholders if a true x-risk were to occur—and the presence of stakeholders may be required for the idea of justice to even come into play(?)
I can’t really tell; x-risks as a monolithic area of study and activism is new.
Society pretty much agrees that extinction is bad so I don’t think these ethical and rhetorical ideas matter as much, you can just make good technical arguments about risks and let other people figure out the rest.
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What about x-risks? Do you think it would be helpful to frame the importance of protecting/enabling the future existence of vast numbers of happy people in terms of justice? Perhaps an argument can be made that it isn’t fair to future/current generations that they aren’t given the opportunity to exist/continue to exist? This is obviously a more difficult case given that there would be no stakeholders if a true x-risk were to occur—and the presence of stakeholders may be required for the idea of justice to even come into play(?)
I can’t really tell; x-risks as a monolithic area of study and activism is new.
Society pretty much agrees that extinction is bad so I don’t think these ethical and rhetorical ideas matter as much, you can just make good technical arguments about risks and let other people figure out the rest.