There could be another reason EAs and rationalists specifically value life a lot more. Suppose there’s at least a 1% chance of AI going well and we live in a utopia and achieve immortality and can live for 1 billion years at a really high level. Then the expected value of life is 10,000,000 life-years. It could be much greater too, see Deep Utopia.
Anecdotally, I agree with the secularization hypothesis. Does this imply people should be more religious?
There could be another reason EAs and rationalists specifically value life a lot more. Suppose there’s at least a 1% chance of AI going well and we live in a utopia and achieve immortality and can live for 1 billion years at a really high level. Then the expected value of life is 10,000,000 life-years. It could be much greater too, see Deep Utopia.
Anecdotally, I agree with the secularization hypothesis. Does this imply people should be more religious?