Crossposted to Less Wrong
‘Like most of life’s dangers, the dangers of artificial intelligence are not easily identified from the armchair.’
J Dmitri Gallow
Epistemic status
I’m not an expert in this field, and herein I make some sweeping generalisations educated guesses about the overall...
TL;DR: EA has traditionally deprioritized climate change as a cause area. But a new report from Rethink Priorities, an EA research institute, suggests that specific Earth systems risks driven by climate change could have mortality impacts comparable to major global health burdens, on top of the known damages of climate change.
The report finds that research and governance work on ‘Earth Systems Stabilization’ to establish whether safe options to address th...
I think the notion of 'marginal charity' misses the idea that it's easier to hit a target if you aim purely at it, rather than having to compromise between several different optimisation criteria. Aiming purely to do good will have much better chance of hitting the target compared to marginally veering your aim away from your selfish purposes. There are costs of compromise.