Yeah, agreed on that point. Folks at Forethought aren’t necessarily thinking about what a near-optimal future should look like, they’re thinking about how to get civilisation to a point where we can make the best possible decisions about what to do with the long-term future.
Actually Jordan, better than “pretty ok” futures is explicitly something that folks at Forethought have been thinking about. Just not in the Viatopia piece.
Check this out: https://www.forethought.org/research/better-futures
Yeah, agreed on that point. Folks at Forethought aren’t necessarily thinking about what a near-optimal future should look like, they’re thinking about how to get civilisation to a point where we can make the best possible decisions about what to do with the long-term future.
Actually Jordan, better than “pretty ok” futures is explicitly something that folks at Forethought have been thinking about. Just not in the Viatopia piece. Check this out: https://www.forethought.org/research/better-futures