Yeah I think that’s fair. I think in practice most people who get convinced to work on eg, biorisk or AI Safety issues instead of climate change often do so for neglectedness or personal fit reasons.
Feel free to suggest a different wording on my point above.
EDIT: I changed “misguided”->”necessarily the best thing to do with limited resources”
I also think we have some different interpretations of the connotations of “misguided.” Like I probably mean it in a weaker sense than you’re taking it as. Eg, I also think selfishness is misguided because closed individualism isn’t philosophically sound, and that my younger self was misguided for not being a longtermist.
Yeah I think that’s fair. I think in practice most people who get convinced to work on eg, biorisk or AI Safety issues instead of climate change often do so for neglectedness or personal fit reasons.
Feel free to suggest a different wording on my point above.
EDIT: I changed “misguided”->”necessarily the best thing to do with limited resources”
I also think we have some different interpretations of the connotations of “misguided.” Like I probably mean it in a weaker sense than you’re taking it as. Eg, I also think selfishness is misguided because closed individualism isn’t philosophically sound, and that my younger self was misguided for not being a longtermist.