How would EAs talk about climate change, if it were a weird niche issue that few people were working on and didn’t have any political connotations? One can imagine that “catastrophic climate impacts due to carbon dioxide” would be another EA cause area that made normal people scratch their heads.
Giving a short description from that hypothetical world might be a good way to communicate why EAs worry less about climate in our actual world.
How would EAs talk about climate change, if it were a weird niche issue that few people were working on and didn’t have any political connotations? One can imagine that “catastrophic climate impacts due to carbon dioxide” would be another EA cause area that made normal people scratch their heads.
Giving a short description from that hypothetical world might be a good way to communicate why EAs worry less about climate in our actual world.
Thanks for the answer. Does this idea of looking at it in that hypothetical word framing have a related post somewhere?
unfortunately no, just idle musings. i would be interested in reading it, though.