What are some papers arguing that one shouldn’t dedicate almost all efforts to decrease existential risk? I ask this because all the papers I’ve read have made extremely good arguments on why decreasing x-risk is important, but I’ve found none saying that it’s not so important, and I want to be informed before spending so much time and effort decreasing x-risk.
What are some papers arguing that one shouldn’t dedicate almost all efforts to decrease existential risk? I ask this because all the papers I’ve read have made extremely good arguments on why decreasing x-risk is important, but I’ve found none saying that it’s not so important, and I want to be informed before spending so much time and effort decreasing x-risk.
https://intelligence.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/01-16-2014-conversation-on-existential-risk.pdf is a discussion between Eliezer, Holden and Luke where Holden argues for thinking about Global Catastrophic Risks instead of xrisks.