Should economists limit the grandiosity of the questions they ask, simply because smaller, humbler questions are easier to answer with confidence? https://www.nber.org/papers/w25320
No, economists should ask far grander questions, like what's the optimal strategy for economic growth that (1) minimizes X-risk and/or (2) maximizes the rate of colonizing the galaxy with happy sentient life.
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See, that’s the root problem right there. Why should the rest of the galaxy have happy sentient life if we don’t?
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Since the smart ones never ask a question they don’t know the answer to, the question is...do they really need to ask?
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