Unfortunately, I haven’t seen any papers, chapters, or even blog posts fully focused on robust totalitarianism, except for the Caplan chapter you already mentioned. I assume that (a) there’s a lot of fairly relevant work in fields like international relations or political science, but also that (b) such work won’t focus on the matter of global and very long-lasting totalitarianism—but to be honest I haven’t actually checked either of those assumptions. (If anyone else knows of any relevant work, please comment about it on that collection I made.)
For “Broadly promoting positive values”, it might be worth adding one or more of:
But I’ve only read the first two of those posts thus far, and I at least slightly disagreed with parts of both, personally.
As for the other topics, the only things that immediately come to mind as particularly noteworthy are Should Longtermists Mostly Think About Animals? and Space governance is important, tractable and neglected, both for the “Space settlement and terraforming” topic. (Tobias already mentioned space governance in another comment; I’m neutral about whether a separate topic should be added for space governance specifically, but I also think it could make sense to just fold that into the “Space settlement and terraforming” topic.)
Hey Arden, glad those resource lists look useful!
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen any papers, chapters, or even blog posts fully focused on robust totalitarianism, except for the Caplan chapter you already mentioned. I assume that (a) there’s a lot of fairly relevant work in fields like international relations or political science, but also that (b) such work won’t focus on the matter of global and very long-lasting totalitarianism—but to be honest I haven’t actually checked either of those assumptions. (If anyone else knows of any relevant work, please comment about it on that collection I made.)
For “Broadly promoting positive values”, it might be worth adding one or more of:
Against moral advocacy—Paul Christiano, 2013
Arguments for and against moral advocacy—Tobias Baumann, 2017
Values Spreading is Often More Important than Extinction Risk—Brian Tomasik, 2013
But I’ve only read the first two of those posts thus far, and I at least slightly disagreed with parts of both, personally.
As for the other topics, the only things that immediately come to mind as particularly noteworthy are Should Longtermists Mostly Think About Animals? and Space governance is important, tractable and neglected, both for the “Space settlement and terraforming” topic. (Tobias already mentioned space governance in another comment; I’m neutral about whether a separate topic should be added for space governance specifically, but I also think it could make sense to just fold that into the “Space settlement and terraforming” topic.)
Thanks! Helpful pointers.