Existential risk prevention as global priority.¶
Bostrom, N. (2013). Existential risk prevention as global priority. Global Policy, 4(1), 15-31.
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- This frame encompasses geological deep time as a small province, and Bostrom (2013) argued that adopting it transforms moral reasoning: if humanity or its descendants might persist for billions of years across the available cosmic time budget, then existential-risk reduction acquires astronomical expected value, and present decisions about catastrophic risk should be weighed against the deep-time future they foreclose.
This sourceArgues the cosmological deep-time future available to humanity gives existential-risk reduction astronomical expected value.
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Bostrom argues a billion-year habitable Earth and a cosmologically vast accessible future make even tiny existential-risk reductions worth astronomically much, a dominant moral priority.
“These considerations suggest that the loss in expected value resulting from an existential catastrophe is so enormous that the objective of reducing existential risks should be a dominant consideration whenever we act out of an impersonal concern for humankind as a whole.”
- This frame encompasses geological deep time as a small province, and Bostrom (2013) argued that adopting it transforms moral reasoning: if humanity or its descendants might persist for billions of years across the available cosmic time budget, then existential-risk reduction acquires astronomical expected value, and present decisions about catastrophic risk should be weighed against the deep-time future they foreclose.
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