Unfortunately, I havenāt 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) thereās a lot of fairly relevant work in fields like international relations or political science, but also that (b) such work wonāt focus on the matter of global and very long-lasting totalitarianismābut to be honest I havenāt actually checked either of those assumptions. (If anyone else knows of any relevant work, please comment about it on that collection I made.)
For āBroadly promoting positive valuesā, it might be worth adding one or more of:
But Iāve 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 āSpace settlement and terraformingā topic. (Tobias already mentioned space governance in another comment; Iām 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 āSpace settlement and terraformingā topic.)
Hey Arden, glad those resource lists look useful!
Unfortunately, I havenāt 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) thereās a lot of fairly relevant work in fields like international relations or political science, but also that (b) such work wonāt focus on the matter of global and very long-lasting totalitarianismābut to be honest I havenāt actually checked either of those assumptions. (If anyone else knows of any relevant work, please comment about it on that collection I made.)
For āBroadly promoting positive valuesā, it might be worth adding one or more of:
Against moral advocacyāPaul Christiano, 2013
Arguments for and against moral advocacyāTobias Baumann, 2017
Values Spreading is Often More Important than Extinction RiskāBrian Tomasik, 2013
But Iāve 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 āSpace settlement and terraformingā topic. (Tobias already mentioned space governance in another comment; Iām 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 āSpace settlement and terraformingā topic.)
Thanks! Helpful pointers.