{"id":375,"date":"2009-11-08T05:09:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:09:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:09:25","slug":"seeking-the-optimal-philanthropic-strategy-global-warming-or-ai-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/seeking-the-optimal-philanthropic-strategy-global-warming-or-ai-risk.php","title":{"rendered":"Seeking the optimal philanthropic strategy: Global Warming or AI risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on <a href=\"http:\/\/pozorvlak.livejournal.com\/134713.html\">Beware of the Train<\/a> some people are discussing what the optimal philanthropic strategy is for people who want to do their bit to help the world as a whole, save people's lives, etc.<\/p><p>The two options under consideration are: (a) Mitigating Anthropogenic Global Warming and (b) working on the risk of artificial intelligence. To quote pozorvlak:<br><i><\/i><\/p><blockquote><p><i>Last night I made a serious strategic error: I dared to suggest to some Less Wrongers that unFriendly transcendent AI was not the most pressing danger facing Humanity.<\/i><\/p><p>In particular, I made the following claims:<\/p><div><ul><li><i>That runaway anthropogenic climate change, while unlikely to cause Humanity's extinction, was very likely (with a probability of the order of 70%) to cause tens of millions of deaths through war, famine, pestilence, etc. in my expected lifetime (so before about 2060).<\/i><\/li><li><i>That with a lower but still worryingly high probability (of the order of 10%) ACC could bring about the end of our current civilisation in the same time frame.<\/i><\/li><li><i>That should our current civilisation end, it would be hard-to-impossible to bootstrap a new one from its ashes.<\/i><\/li><li><i>That unFriendly AI, by contrast, has a much lower (<\/i><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/blockquote><div><a href=\"http:\/\/pozorvlak.livejournal.com\/134713.html\">Join the debate!<\/a><\/div><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c44cc_7813164664144593334-7916019264074034763?l=transhumangoodness.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Beware of the Train some people are discussing what the optimal philanthropic strategy is for people who want to do their bit to help the world as a whole, save people's lives, etc.The two options under consideration are: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/seeking-the-optimal-philanthropic-strategy-global-warming-or-ai-risk.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhuman"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}