Why doesn’t the United States threaten to nuke everyone if they don’t give a very reasonable 20% of their GDP per year to fund X-Risk — or whatever your favorite worthwhile projects are?
Screw it, why don’t we set the bar at 1%?
Imagine you’re advising the U.S. President (it’s Donald Trump right now, incidentally). Who should President Trump threaten with nuking if they don’t pay up to fund X-Risk? How much?
Now, let’s say 193 countries do it, and $X trillion is coming in and doing massive good.
Only Switzerland and North Korea defect. What do you do? Or rather, what do you advise Donald Trump to do?
Well, why stop there?
World GDP is $80.6 trillion.
Why doesn’t the United States threaten to nuke everyone if they don’t give a very reasonable 20% of their GDP per year to fund X-Risk — or whatever your favorite worthwhile projects are?
Screw it, why don’t we set the bar at 1%?
Imagine you’re advising the U.S. President (it’s Donald Trump right now, incidentally). Who should President Trump threaten with nuking if they don’t pay up to fund X-Risk? How much?
Now, let’s say 193 countries do it, and $X trillion is coming in and doing massive good.
Only Switzerland and North Korea defect. What do you do? Or rather, what do you advise Donald Trump to do?
I never suggested threats, and in fact I don’t think you should threaten to press the button unless someone makes a counterfactual donation of $1,672.
Jeff’s original comment was also not supposed to be a threat, though it was ambiguous. All of my comments are talking about the non-threat version.