What’s the longest timeline that you could still consider a short timeline by your own metric, and therefore a world “we might just want to grieve over”? I ask because, in your original comment you mentioned 2037 as a reasonably short timeline, and personally if we had an extra decade I’d be a lot less worried.
Edit: Oops, I responded to the first part of your question, not the second. My guess is timelines with less than 5 years seem really very hard, though we should still try. I think there is lots of hope in the 5-15 year timeline worlds. 15 years is just roughly the threshold of when I would stop considering someone’s timelines “short”, as a category.
I admit, it’s pretty disheartening to hear that, even if we had until 2040 (which seems less and less likely to me anyway), you’d still think there’s not much we could do but grieve in advance.
What’s the longest timeline that you could still consider a short timeline by your own metric, and therefore a world “we might just want to grieve over”? I ask because, in your original comment you mentioned 2037 as a reasonably short timeline, and personally if we had an extra decade I’d be a lot less worried.
About 15 years, I think?
Edit: Oops, I responded to the first part of your question, not the second. My guess is timelines with less than 5 years seem really very hard, though we should still try. I think there is lots of hope in the 5-15 year timeline worlds. 15 years is just roughly the threshold of when I would stop considering someone’s timelines “short”, as a category.
I admit, it’s pretty disheartening to hear that, even if we had until 2040 (which seems less and less likely to me anyway), you’d still think there’s not much we could do but grieve in advance.