My view is that “polycrisis” is a useful term because from a neartermist view, we should dedicate some EA resources to mitigating the low probability scenario where interconnected disasters happen at once, and the best approaches to mitigating polycrises could differ from the best approaches to mitigating individual disasters.
One example could be:
climate change, naturally arising pandemics, drought, famine, wars, recessions
I’m not a longtermist but from a longtermist view, I’d think that again, some EA resources should be dedicated to the extinction risk posed by simultaneous, smaller, interconnected risks.
My view is that “polycrisis” is a useful term because from a neartermist view, we should dedicate some EA resources to mitigating the low probability scenario where interconnected disasters happen at once, and the best approaches to mitigating polycrises could differ from the best approaches to mitigating individual disasters.
One example could be: climate change, naturally arising pandemics, drought, famine, wars, recessions
I’m not a longtermist but from a longtermist view, I’d think that again, some EA resources should be dedicated to the extinction risk posed by simultaneous, smaller, interconnected risks.