I give some examples here; the “stratospheric aerosol injection to blunt impacts of climate change” example is an x-risk reduction one.
It’s pretty straightforward to tell a story about how any well-intentioned action could have unintended, negative consequences in the long run. Lots of sci-fi uses this premise.
This doesn’t mean the stories are always plausible (though note that “plausibility” here is usually assessed by intuition), and it’s not the same as generating a comprehensive catalog of stories about how an action could go (the state space here is too large to generate such a catalog).
I give some examples here; the “stratospheric aerosol injection to blunt impacts of climate change” example is an x-risk reduction one.
It’s pretty straightforward to tell a story about how any well-intentioned action could have unintended, negative consequences in the long run. Lots of sci-fi uses this premise.
This doesn’t mean the stories are always plausible (though note that “plausibility” here is usually assessed by intuition), and it’s not the same as generating a comprehensive catalog of stories about how an action could go (the state space here is too large to generate such a catalog).