Forethought’s view that improving the future conditional on survival is more important than ensuring survival goes against the dominant view in EA for many years that we need to reduce extinction risk. Two questions on this:
How far away from the optimal allocation of (longtermist) resources do you think the community currently is?
For example, should we be radically reducing investment in things like addressing biorisk or nuclear risk? Do we need to be rethinking the allocation of resources within AI risk?
Do you think there is anything that is being prioritized in the community that is actually harmful?
For example, could certain AI alignment approaches be bad for future digital sentience?
Forethought’s view that improving the future conditional on survival is more important than ensuring survival goes against the dominant view in EA for many years that we need to reduce extinction risk. Two questions on this:
How far away from the optimal allocation of (longtermist) resources do you think the community currently is?
For example, should we be radically reducing investment in things like addressing biorisk or nuclear risk? Do we need to be rethinking the allocation of resources within AI risk?
Do you think there is anything that is being prioritized in the community that is actually harmful?
For example, could certain AI alignment approaches be bad for future digital sentience?