A more popular book may definitely be in order. Also, the organization of “Global Catastrophic Risks” struck me as a little tonedeaf: There’s a chapter in it (by Eliezer I think?) talking about how people shut down when talking about very large scale events like full on extinction. But the book starts off talking about how we expect the entire universe to fall apart in trillions of years, so it automatically starts by getting people to have all the bad reactions to existential risk up to 11. I’m optimistic that this book won’t make that mistake.
A more popular book may definitely be in order. Also, the organization of “Global Catastrophic Risks” struck me as a little tonedeaf: There’s a chapter in it (by Eliezer I think?) talking about how people shut down when talking about very large scale events like full on extinction. But the book starts off talking about how we expect the entire universe to fall apart in trillions of years, so it automatically starts by getting people to have all the bad reactions to existential risk up to 11. I’m optimistic that this book won’t make that mistake.