Do you hold a totalist view of population ethics? If you don’t you may want to funnel out all x-risk reduction charities
“X-risk” is typically short for “existential risk”, which includes extinction risk, but also includes risks of unrecoverable collapse, unrecoverable dystopia, and some (but not all) s-risks/suffering catastrophes. (See here.)
My understanding is that, if we condition on rejecting totalism:
Risk of unrecoverable collapse probably becomes way less important (though this is a bit less clear)
Risk of unrecoverable dystopia still retains much of its importance
Suffering risk still retains much of its importance
(See here for some discussion relevant to those points.)
So maybe by “x-risk” you actually meant “extinction risk”, rather than “existential risk”? (Using “x-risk”/”existential risk” as synonymous with just “extinction risk” is unfortunately common, but goes against Bostrom and Ord’s definitions.)
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“X-risk” is typically short for “existential risk”, which includes extinction risk, but also includes risks of unrecoverable collapse, unrecoverable dystopia, and some (but not all) s-risks/suffering catastrophes. (See here.)
My understanding is that, if we condition on rejecting totalism:
Risk of extinction becomes way less important
Though it’d still matter due to its effects on the present generation
Risk of unrecoverable collapse probably becomes way less important (though this is a bit less clear)
Risk of unrecoverable dystopia still retains much of its importance
Suffering risk still retains much of its importance
(See here for some discussion relevant to those points.)
So maybe by “x-risk” you actually meant “extinction risk”, rather than “existential risk”? (Using “x-risk”/”existential risk” as synonymous with just “extinction risk” is unfortunately common, but goes against Bostrom and Ord’s definitions.)
Yeah absolutely, this was my tired 11pm brain. I meant to refer to extinction risk whenever I said x-risk. I’ll edit.