Unhappy as it makes me to say it, I suspect that nuclear war or other non-existential catastrophe would overall reduce existential risk, because we’d have more time to think about existential risk mitigation while we rebuild society. However I suspect that trying to bring nuclear war about as a result of this reasoning is not a winning strategy.
Technical challenges? Difficulty in coordinating? Are there other candidate setbacks?
Technical challenges? Difficulty in coordinating? Are there other candidate setbacks?