This post is co-authored with Ben Garfinkel. It is cross-posted from the CEA blog. A PDF version can be found here.
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Political economy and atrocity risk.
EA is neglecting the important middle ground between existential risk and public health: Atrocity risk.
We're now observing governance-automation trends driving governments' increasing apathy toward constituents outside of the govs' minimally-viable winning-coalitions. See "Selectorate Theory". This will continue unless/until we ban thinking machines like the Lansraad in Dune.
Absent such a ban, the atrocity risk from escalating neo-feudal proxy conflicts is legion.
This is a 3/3 on the ITN.