This seems like a retread of Bostrom’s argument that, despite astronomical waste, x-risk reduction is important regardless of whether it comes at the cost of growth. Does any part of this actually rely on Roodman’s superexponential growth? It seems like it would be true for almost any growth rates (as long as it doesn’t take like literally billions or hundreds of billions of years to reach the steady state).
I’m pretty confident that accelerating exponential and never-ending growth would be competitive with reducing x-risk. That was IMO the big flaw with Bostrom’s argument (until now). If that’s not intuitive let me know and I’ll formalize a bit
This seems like a retread of Bostrom’s argument that, despite astronomical waste, x-risk reduction is important regardless of whether it comes at the cost of growth. Does any part of this actually rely on Roodman’s superexponential growth? It seems like it would be true for almost any growth rates (as long as it doesn’t take like literally billions or hundreds of billions of years to reach the steady state).
I’m pretty confident that accelerating exponential and never-ending growth would be competitive with reducing x-risk. That was IMO the big flaw with Bostrom’s argument (until now). If that’s not intuitive let me know and I’ll formalize a bit