You seem to be saying that we’re doomed if we do, and doomed if we don’t.
So, take on all these risks, because life is going to be extinguished anyway?
I don’t think that’s what you mean. I think, if you mean anything coherent, you mean that… no, I can’t figure out what you might mean.
If you choose not to take a risk, it makes that risk go away. If you mean that you’re going to get hit by some other risk that you didn’t think of anyway, you are showing little faith in intelligence. As we learn more, we become aware of more and more risks. There can’t be an infinite number of existential risks waiting for us, or we wouldn’t be here. Therefore, we can expect to eventually anticipate most existential risks, and deal with them.
I’m assuming that avoiding risks involves a tradeoff versus other forms of human welfare, and I don’t see why a strategy that makes humanity worse off but longer lived is necessarily preferable to one that makes humanity better off but shorter lived.
And yes, we’re “doomed” in the sense that, as far as I understand, an infinitely long existence isn’t an available option.
You seem to be saying that we’re doomed if we do, and doomed if we don’t.
So, take on all these risks, because life is going to be extinguished anyway?
I don’t think that’s what you mean. I think, if you mean anything coherent, you mean that… no, I can’t figure out what you might mean.
If you choose not to take a risk, it makes that risk go away. If you mean that you’re going to get hit by some other risk that you didn’t think of anyway, you are showing little faith in intelligence. As we learn more, we become aware of more and more risks. There can’t be an infinite number of existential risks waiting for us, or we wouldn’t be here. Therefore, we can expect to eventually anticipate most existential risks, and deal with them.
I’m assuming that avoiding risks involves a tradeoff versus other forms of human welfare, and I don’t see why a strategy that makes humanity worse off but longer lived is necessarily preferable to one that makes humanity better off but shorter lived.
And yes, we’re “doomed” in the sense that, as far as I understand, an infinitely long existence isn’t an available option.