(c) is a meme that points in the wrong direction. It describes an Earth with not enough regulation, not an Earth with too much regulation. It’d be great to make the regulators around the world make right decisions for the correct reasons, but getting anyone anywhere to implement anything remotely sane, even if you get only half-way there and others continue to race ahead, means dying with more dignity (and later)
Shorthand for having done things that increase the log-odds of having a long-term future, as a goal that makes sense to pursue, doesn’t include unilateral unethical actions, means that the world is closer to a surviving one, etc.
See the Death with Dignity post.
(c) is a meme that points in the wrong direction. It describes an Earth with not enough regulation, not an Earth with too much regulation. It’d be great to make the regulators around the world make right decisions for the correct reasons, but getting anyone anywhere to implement anything remotely sane, even if you get only half-way there and others continue to race ahead, means dying with more dignity (and later)
Taboo dignity.
Shorthand for having done things that increase the log-odds of having a long-term future, as a goal that makes sense to pursue, doesn’t include unilateral unethical actions, means that the world is closer to a surviving one, etc. See the Death with Dignity post.