Yeah I think you raise a good point. After I wrote the shortform (and after our initial discussion), I now lean more towards just defining “existential risk” as something in the cluster of “reducing P(doom)” and treat alternative methods of increasing the probability of utopia as a separate consideration.
I still think highlighting the difference is valuable. For example, I know others disagree, and consider (e.g) theoretically non-irrevocable flawed realizations as form of existential risk even in the classical sense.
Yeah I think you raise a good point. After I wrote the shortform (and after our initial discussion), I now lean more towards just defining “existential risk” as something in the cluster of “reducing P(doom)” and treat alternative methods of increasing the probability of utopia as a separate consideration.
I still think highlighting the difference is valuable. For example, I know others disagree, and consider (e.g) theoretically non-irrevocable flawed realizations as form of existential risk even in the classical sense.