I would’ve found it helpful if the post included a definition of TUA (as well as saying what what it stands for). Here’s a relevant excerpt from the paper:
The TUA [techno-utopian approach] is a cluster of ideas which make up the original paradigm within which the field of ERS [existential-risk studies] was founded. We understand it to be primarily based on three main pillars of belief: transhumanism, total utilitarianism and strong longtermism. More precisely: (1) the belief that a maximally technologically developed future could contain (and is defined in terms of) enormous quantities of utilitarian intrinsic value, particularly due to more fulfilling posthuman modes of living; (2) the failure to fully realise or have capacity to realise this potential value would constitute an existential catastrophe; and, (3) we have an overwhelming moral obligation to ensure that such value is realised by avoiding an existential catastrophe, including through exceptional actions.
What does TUA stand for?
Techno-utopian approach (via paper abstract)
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I would’ve found it helpful if the post included a definition of TUA (as well as saying what what it stands for). Here’s a relevant excerpt from the paper: