A reasonable guideline is limiting the human caused xrisk to several orders of magnitude below the natural background xrisk level, so that human-caused dangers are lost in the noise compared to the pre-existing threat we must live with anyway.
I like this idea [...]
We are well above there right now—and that’s very unlikely to change before we have machine superintelligence.
We are well above there right now—and that’s very unlikely to change before we have machine superintelligence.