There have been countless discussions of takeoff speeds. The slower the takeoff and the closer the arms race, the greater the risk of a multipolar takeoff. Most of you probably have some intuition of what the risk of a multipolar takeoff is. S-risk is probably just 1/10th of that – wild guess. So I’m afraid that the risk is quite macroscopic.
The second version ignores the expected value. I acknowledge that expected value calculus has its limitations, but if we use it at all, and we clearly do, a lot, then there’s no reason to ignore its implications specifically for s-risks. With all ITN factors taken together but ignoring probabilities, s-risk work beats other x-risk work by a factor of 10^12 for me (your mileage may vary), so if it’s just 10x less likely, that’s not decisive for me.
My perhaps a bit naive take (acausal stuff, other grabby aliens, etc.) is that a conflict needs at least two, and humans are too weak and uncoordinated to be much of an adversary. Hence I’m not so worried about monopolar takeoffs. Not sure, though. Maybe I should be more worried about those too.
There have been countless discussions of takeoff speeds. The slower the takeoff and the closer the arms race, the greater the risk of a multipolar takeoff. Most of you probably have some intuition of what the risk of a multipolar takeoff is. S-risk is probably just 1/10th of that – wild guess. So I’m afraid that the risk is quite macroscopic.
The second version ignores the expected value. I acknowledge that expected value calculus has its limitations, but if we use it at all, and we clearly do, a lot, then there’s no reason to ignore its implications specifically for s-risks. With all ITN factors taken together but ignoring probabilities, s-risk work beats other x-risk work by a factor of 10^12 for me (your mileage may vary), so if it’s just 10x less likely, that’s not decisive for me.
I don’t have a response to the third version.
I don’t understand why you think a multipolar takeoff would run S-risks.
My perhaps a bit naive take (acausal stuff, other grabby aliens, etc.) is that a conflict needs at least two, and humans are too weak and uncoordinated to be much of an adversary. Hence I’m not so worried about monopolar takeoffs. Not sure, though. Maybe I should be more worried about those too.