And I bet 95% of them plan on spending somebody ELSE’s share of that 10% of GWP.
Poll: 50% of people want to spend at least 10% of Gross World Product on reducing existential risks GWP = c. $100 trillion Global spending on reducing X-risks is c. $100 million/year (Ord, 2019, 'The Precipice') That's 0.001% of GWP Global spending on ice cream = $60 billionhttps://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1256713214722637824 …
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A better poll might be “what percentage of your annual income would you be willing to allocate to X?”
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We had a question on X-risk funding in our paper on the psychology of existential risk. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50145-9 …pic.twitter.com/rlWiw9YKTb
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= worth it. (I ate the marshmallow)
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US spending on Halloween costumes for pets: $490 million/year.https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-are-spending-almost-half-a-billion-on-halloween-costumes-for-their-pets-2019-10-22 …
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Worth it.
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No one said ice cream spending would go down!
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Key phrase in poll is “If this estimate is right” - I think most normies like me can’t intuitively accept the actual risk being nearly that high
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May I suggest two books? 1- The Precipice - Toby Ord 2- The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb Bonus book: Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Reminds me of a pertinent story about Stalin, Mikoyan and ice cream. Mikoyan was the food minister and he gave a report at the Party congress bragging about some icecream factories. After the session, outside the hall, Stalin remarked in passing, "Comrade Mikoyan, it seems... 1/2
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...that you're more concerned about icecream than about the World Revolution!" Mikoyan went home, wrote his will, told his wife that he'd be sent to a gulag or shot soon. But nothing happened, since it really was a joke.
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