Ah good point! Yes, I didn’t mention this for some reason, although I should have. Indeed, if (like me) you’re sympathetic to the person-affecting views of population ethics and Epicureanism about the badness of death, then the only reason to reduce X-risk would be to reducing the suffering to currently living people during their lifetimes. In short, X-risk would not be much of a priority of this combination but that’s basically pretty obvious if you hold this combination of views.
Ah good point! Yes, I didn’t mention this for some reason, although I should have. Indeed, if (like me) you’re sympathetic to the person-affecting views of population ethics and Epicureanism about the badness of death, then the only reason to reduce X-risk would be to reducing the suffering to currently living people during their lifetimes. In short, X-risk would not be much of a priority of this combination but that’s basically pretty obvious if you hold this combination of views.