“Freaking out about x-risk doesn’t help; settle in for the long war” by Holly_Elmore

If the world is destroyed, it won’t be our fault and there may have been nothing we could do about it. It will take a lot of people contributing their small part to avert AI danger, and they might not all do it, and we could all end up dead. I work against this outcome because I don’t want it to happen, and I believe I can do some small part to reduce the danger. It's delusional and not helpful to work on this cause because you think there has to be some way you can single-handedly fix it (sometimes referred to as “heroic responsibility”). There's an impulse to bear the urgency of x-risk (or of animal suffering, or global disease burden, etc.) in mind at all times, and for me this is often done with extremely delusional hopes that, by refusing to live my normal life [...] --- First published: November 1st, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/QxCAimH3jm7medPts/freaking-out-about-x-risk-doesn-t-help-settle-in-for-the --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.