I’d say: Imagine that some small group of people were given the power (and thus responsibility) to steer the future in some big way. And ask what they should do with it. Ask how they possibly could wield that power in a way that wouldn’t be deeply tragic, and that would realistically work (in the way that “immediately lock in every aspect of the future via a binding humanity-wide popular vote” would not).
Isn’t the problem that groups and individuals differ as to what they view as ‘deeply tragic’?
Isn’t the problem that groups and individuals differ as to what they view as ‘deeply tragic’?
This seems circular.