On two occasions you referred to nuclear war as an “existential risk”. It’s not. You also referred to 1970s-tier bioweapons as an “existential risk”; they weren’t. Both are GCRs but not X; there have never been enough nukes to kill all humans and even infectious diseases will have R drop below 1 before population density drops to 0. We are at a point now where biotechnology is beginning to pose notable X-risk, but we weren’t then.
You mentioned that the communities you reference, and EA/Rats, are overwhelmingly male, but you do not make any actual argument about how this is relevant. Do remember that a non-trivial fraction of Rats are not feminists, and this pings their “hostile politics” detectors (as does the editing of the quote from “men” to “people”); that’s a loss in persuasiveness, which should be avoided unless you need it to make some sort of point.
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On two occasions you referred to nuclear war as an “existential risk”. It’s not. You also referred to 1970s-tier bioweapons as an “existential risk”; they weren’t. Both are GCRs but not X; there have never been enough nukes to kill all humans and even infectious diseases will have R drop below 1 before population density drops to 0. We are at a point now where biotechnology is beginning to pose notable X-risk, but we weren’t then.
You mentioned that the communities you reference, and EA/Rats, are overwhelmingly male, but you do not make any actual argument about how this is relevant. Do remember that a non-trivial fraction of Rats are not feminists, and this pings their “hostile politics” detectors (as does the editing of the quote from “men” to “people”); that’s a loss in persuasiveness, which should be avoided unless you need it to make some sort of point.