Can you go into more detail about this? Utilitarians and other people with logically/intellectually precise worldviews seem to be pretty consistently against human extinction; whereas average people with foggy worldviews tend to randomly flip in various directions depending on what hot takes they’ve recently read.
Foggy worldviews tend to flip people around based on raw emotions, tribalism, nationalism, etc. None of these are likely to get you to the position “I should implement a long term machievellian scheme to kill every human being on the planet”. The obvious point being that “every human on the planet” includes ones family, friends, and country, so almost anyone operating on emotions will not pursue such a goal.
On the other hand, utilitarian math can get to “kill all humans” in several ways, just by messing around with different assumptions and factual beliefs. Of course, I don’t agree with those calculations, but someone else might. If we convince everyone on earth that the correct thing to do is “follow the math”, or “shut up and calculate”, then some subset of them will have the wrong assumptions, or incorrect beliefs, or just mess up the math, and conclude that they have a moral obligation to kill everyone.
Foggy worldviews tend to flip people around based on raw emotions, tribalism, nationalism, etc. None of these are likely to get you to the position “I should implement a long term machievellian scheme to kill every human being on the planet”. The obvious point being that “every human on the planet” includes ones family, friends, and country, so almost anyone operating on emotions will not pursue such a goal.
On the other hand, utilitarian math can get to “kill all humans” in several ways, just by messing around with different assumptions and factual beliefs. Of course, I don’t agree with those calculations, but someone else might. If we convince everyone on earth that the correct thing to do is “follow the math”, or “shut up and calculate”, then some subset of them will have the wrong assumptions, or incorrect beliefs, or just mess up the math, and conclude that they have a moral obligation to kill everyone.