I think it makes sense to state the more direct threat-model of literal extinction; though I am also a little confused by the citing of weirdness points… I would’ve said that it makes the whole conversation more complex in a way that (I believe) everyone would reliably end up thinking was not a productive use of time.
(Expanding on this a little: I think that literal extinction is a likely default outcome, and most people who are newly coming to this topic would want to know that this is even in the hypothesis-space and find that to be key information. I think if I said “also maybe they later simulate us in weird configurations like pets for a day every billion years while experiencing insane things” they would not respond “ah, never mind then, this subject is no longer a very big issue”, they would be more like “I would’ve preferred that you had factored this element out of our discussion so far, we spent a lot of time on it yet it still seems to me like the extinction event being on the table is the primary thing that I want to debate”.)
I think it makes sense to state the more direct threat-model of literal extinction; though I am also a little confused by the citing of weirdness points… I would’ve said that it makes the whole conversation more complex in a way that (I believe) everyone would reliably end up thinking was not a productive use of time.
(Expanding on this a little: I think that literal extinction is a likely default outcome, and most people who are newly coming to this topic would want to know that this is even in the hypothesis-space and find that to be key information. I think if I said “also maybe they later simulate us in weird configurations like pets for a day every billion years while experiencing insane things” they would not respond “ah, never mind then, this subject is no longer a very big issue”, they would be more like “I would’ve preferred that you had factored this element out of our discussion so far, we spent a lot of time on it yet it still seems to me like the extinction event being on the table is the primary thing that I want to debate”.)