no code implementations • 27 Dec 2021 • Carla Zoe Cremer, Luke Kemp
The most influential framework for ERS, the 'techno-utopian approach' (TUA), struggles with these issues and has a unique set of additional problems: it unnecessarily combines the study of longtermism and longtermist ethics with the study of extinction, relies on a non-representative moral worldview, uses ambiguous and inadequate definitions, fails to incorporate insights from risk assessment in relevant fields, chooses arbitrary categorisations of risk, and advocates for dangerous mitigation strategies.
no code implementations • 10 Jan 2020 • Peter Cihon, Matthijs M. Maas, Luke Kemp
However, forum shopping can be beneficial and a fragmented landscape of institutions can be self-organising.