Hence longtermism tends to focus on so-called “existential risk”: The risk that humanity will go through in an extinction event, like the one suffered by the Neanderthals or Dinosaurs, or another type of irreversible humanity-wise calamity.
Just want to say there seems to be a community wide misconception between existential, suffering, and extinction risks. An existential risk just broadly means the disempowerment of humanity and suffering/extinction are a subset of that. It’s plausible there’s a future without extinction or (more) suffering that does involve disempowerment.
Just want to say there seems to be a community wide misconception between existential, suffering, and extinction risks. An existential risk just broadly means the disempowerment of humanity and suffering/extinction are a subset of that. It’s plausible there’s a future without extinction or (more) suffering that does involve disempowerment.
Thanks. I tried to get at that with the phrase “irreversible humanity-wide calamity”.