I misinterpreted the prompt initially. The answer is much more ambiguous to me now, especially due to the overlap between x-risk interventions and “increasing the value of futures where we survive” ones.
I’m not even sure what the later look like to be honest—but I am inclined to think significant value lies in marginal actions now which affect it, even if I’m not sure what they are.
X-risks seem much more “either this is a world in which we go extinct” or a “world with no real extinction risk”. It’s one or the other, but many interventions hinge on the situation being much more precarious.
I find the “mistopia” notion quite compelling—ignoring wild animal welfare and non-totalist population ethics, eg. common sense; seems dangerously likely to dominate in disempowerment scenarios.
But I have no idea how to change that. More Global Priorities Research? Public awareness campaigning? Vegan advocacy?
I misinterpreted the prompt initially. The answer is much more ambiguous to me now, especially due to the overlap between x-risk interventions and “increasing the value of futures where we survive” ones.
I’m not even sure what the later look like to be honest—but I am inclined to think significant value lies in marginal actions now which affect it, even if I’m not sure what they are.
X-risks seem much more “either this is a world in which we go extinct” or a “world with no real extinction risk”. It’s one or the other, but many interventions hinge on the situation being much more precarious.
I find the “mistopia” notion quite compelling—ignoring wild animal welfare and non-totalist population ethics, eg. common sense; seems dangerously likely to dominate in disempowerment scenarios.
But I have no idea how to change that. More Global Priorities Research? Public awareness campaigning? Vegan advocacy?
Shifting rightward until I have better ideas.