I think the response to 9/11 was an outlier mostly caused by the “photogenic” nature of the disaster. COVID killed over a million Americans yet we basically forgot about it once it was gone. We haven’t seen much serious investment in measures to prevent a new pandemic.
Yeah, I hate to be the one to say it but… you’d be better off calculating the size of the incident in terms of government response by summing the net worth / socioeconomic power of the harmed individuals.
That’s part of what I was trying to get at with “dramatic” but I agree now that it might be 80% photogenicity. I do expect that 3000 Americans killed by (a) humanoid robot(s) on camera would cause more outrage than 1 million Americans killed by a virus which we discovered six months later was AI-created in some way.
I think the response to 9/11 was an outlier mostly caused by the “photogenic” nature of the disaster. COVID killed over a million Americans yet we basically forgot about it once it was gone. We haven’t seen much serious investment in measures to prevent a new pandemic.
Yeah, I hate to be the one to say it but… you’d be better off calculating the size of the incident in terms of government response by summing the net worth / socioeconomic power of the harmed individuals.
That’s part of what I was trying to get at with “dramatic” but I agree now that it might be 80% photogenicity. I do expect that 3000 Americans killed by (a) humanoid robot(s) on camera would cause more outrage than 1 million Americans killed by a virus which we discovered six months later was AI-created in some way.