@_jordan_bates No, I’m afraid I haven’t written anything about that.
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your page on ethics (https://meaningness.com/ethics ) prompted the question. in general you suggest that we should be less ethical
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wondered if age of existential risk necessitates a greater ethical commitment than previous times, given the colossal stakes
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Hmm… I doubt ethics is a useful framework for thinking about existential risk. But I haven’t thought that through in detail.
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seems to me the average person can help mitigate existential risk (to small extent) by living compassionately, sustainably...
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minimalistically, self-reliantly; by practicing epistemic kindness/virtue (https://twitter.com/_jordan_bates/status/595665045251579904 …); and by raising awareness
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maybe relevant: the ethics of ppl like
@elonmusk &@leashless seem to be based largely on goal of mitigating existential risk1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Yeeesss… I see what they are doing (and x-risk mitigation in general) as practical, not ethical. Maybe just semantics.
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interesting, i gotcha. effective altruism movement seems to frame x-risk mitigation as ethical; guess i inherited their frame
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I’m generally aligned with EA, but I think their narrative is somewhat distorted by “mission,” a “confused stance”….
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… which I introduced in https://meaningness.com/an-appetizer-purpose … and summarize at https://meaningness.com/purpose-schematic-overview … .
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The book will have much more on that eventually. Actually it’s the topic that originally motivated me to write it!
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