Side note: I love that “paperclipping” is a verb now.
Anthony Fleming
Scout Mindset Poster
Summary: the Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act of 2022
Arguments for Why Preventing Human Extinction is Wrong
[Question] Copies sold of What We Owe the Future
New Podcast: X-Risk Upskill
[Question] Values of a Space-Faring Civilization
[Question] Testing Impact: Longtermist TV Show
Sure thing, I changed the settings to anyone with a link can edit.
From what I can tell, support is bipartisan but small. It was sponsored by a Republican, Senator Rob Portman from Ohio, and is cosponsored by two Democrats and one other Republican.
Thanks for these resources!
What’s a Tomasikian suffering empathy exercise? I’m not familiar with that term.
Excellent point. Playing devil’s advocate, one might be skeptical that humanity is good enough to perform these “cosmic rescue missions”, either out of cruelty/indifference or simply because we will never be advanced enough. Still, it’s a good concept to keep in mind.
Thanks for the recommendations! I think it looks better now, less busy.
Interesting, thank you for sharing. A lot of this debate centers around our interpretations of consequentialism.
Interesting, I’ll have to look into that. Thanks for the clarification.
I would agree. Still, some of the other commenters have pointed out that alien civilizations can have interesting consequences for the Anti-natalist, Negative Utilitarian, and S-Risk arguments.
Great points. If you assume a negative utilitarian worldview, you can make strong arguments both for and against human extinction.
That’s awesome! Thanks for the update!
Good point, some of these arguments do contradict one another. I suppose if human extinction really were a good thing, it would be because of one or a few of these arguments, not all of them.