This is a Draft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked.
Commenting and feedback guidelines: Keep one and delete the rest (or write your own):
I’m posting this to get it out there. I’d love to see comments that take the ideas forward, but criticism of my argument won’t be as useful at this time.
This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally put on a Forum post is very welcome.
This is a Forum post that I wouldn’t have posted without the nudge of Draft Amnesty Week. Fire away! (But be nice, as usual)
I find it surprising when people (people in general, not EA specific) do not seem to understand the moral perspective of “do no harm to other people”. This is confusing to me, and I wonder what aspects/experiences contributed to people being able to understand this vs people not being able to understand this.
From some expressions on extinction risks as I have observed—extinction risks might actually be containing suffering risks. It could be the expectation of death is torturing. For example, if one suddenly die next second without expecting, there will be no suffering risks. In risks that could be expected, all risks might contain some components of suffering risks.
Commenting and feedback guidelines:
Keep one and delete the rest (or write your own):
I’m posting this to get it out there. I’d love to see comments that take the ideas forward, but criticism of my argument won’t be as useful at this time.
This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally put on a Forum post is very welcome.
This is a Forum post that I wouldn’t have posted without the nudge of Draft Amnesty Week. Fire away! (But be nice, as usual)
I find it surprising when people (people in general, not EA specific) do not seem to understand the moral perspective of “do no harm to other people”. This is confusing to me, and I wonder what aspects/experiences contributed to people being able to understand this vs people not being able to understand this.
From some expressions on extinction risks as I have observed—extinction risks might actually be containing suffering risks. It could be the expectation of death is torturing. For example, if one suddenly die next second without expecting, there will be no suffering risks. In risks that could be expected, all risks might contain some components of suffering risks.