There are around 8 billion humans, so an ordinary person has a very small fraction of the power needed to steer humanity in any particular direction. A very large number of doublings are required to be a relevant factor.
That’s an interesting idea. However, people who read this comments probably already have power much greater than the baseline—a developed country, high intelligence, education, enough money and free time to read websites...
Not sure how many of those 20 doublings still remain.
I thought the statement was pretty clearly not about the average lesswronger.
But in terms of the “call to action” − 20 was pretty conservative, so I think it’s still in that range, and doesn’t change the conclusions one should draw much.
Can you expand on this? I’m not sure what you mean but am curious about it.
There are around 8 billion humans, so an ordinary person has a very small fraction of the power needed to steer humanity in any particular direction. A very large number of doublings are required to be a relevant factor.
That’s an interesting idea. However, people who read this comments probably already have power much greater than the baseline—a developed country, high intelligence, education, enough money and free time to read websites...
Not sure how many of those 20 doublings still remain.
I thought the statement was pretty clearly not about the average lesswronger.
But in terms of the “call to action” − 20 was pretty conservative, so I think it’s still in that range, and doesn’t change the conclusions one should draw much.