Wouldn’t this policy have selected against taking the coming intelligence explosion seriously? It prioritizes conventional life paths, either starting a family or earning enough to fund others, over low-paid research work that might decide the fate of the light cone (for example). Unless you impose equally costly requirements in other areas, it signals stronger demographic than x-risk concerns.
As I recall, dath ilan coordinates behind the scenes to slow down the development of computing. This buys it enough time to prioritize a sustainable demographic policy. But a focus on long-term sustainability can and sometimes should be relaxed, and resources redirected, when you anticipate a crisis in the medium term (as early LW did).
Wouldn’t this policy have selected against taking the coming intelligence explosion seriously? It prioritizes conventional life paths, either starting a family or earning enough to fund others, over low-paid research work that might decide the fate of the light cone (for example). Unless you impose equally costly requirements in other areas, it signals stronger demographic than x-risk concerns.
As I recall, dath ilan coordinates behind the scenes to slow down the development of computing. This buys it enough time to prioritize a sustainable demographic policy. But a focus on long-term sustainability can and sometimes should be relaxed, and resources redirected, when you anticipate a crisis in the medium term (as early LW did).