I often see people citing Tyler Cowen on the moral imperative to do economic growth for our descendants while simultaneously claiming that existential risk is low but nonzero. Of course there’s nothing wrong with agreeing with someone on one thing but not another, but in this case I feel like there’s a premise missing or something.
To be clear, Tyler Cowen believes that growth is more important than averting x-risk as a logical consequence of believing that human extinction on the timescale of 700 years or so is inevitable (H/T AppliedDivinityStudies, pg.12).
I often see people citing Tyler Cowen on the moral imperative to do economic growth for our descendants while simultaneously claiming that existential risk is low but nonzero. Of course there’s nothing wrong with agreeing with someone on one thing but not another, but in this case I feel like there’s a premise missing or something.