This is a true statement about the attention allocation on LessWrong, but definitely not a true statement about the world’s overall resource allocation. Total spending on pandemic preparedness is and was orders of magnitude greater than spending on AGI risk. It’s just a hard problem, which requires a lot of expensive physical infrastructure to prepare for.
This is a true statement about the attention allocation on LessWrong, but definitely not a true statement about the world’s overall resource allocation. Total spending on pandemic preparedness is and was orders of magnitude greater than spending on AGI risk. It’s just a hard problem, which requires a lot of expensive physical infrastructure to prepare for.
But pandemics was not explored as possible x-risks.
It was in our censi when we asked people for x-risks.