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+==Existential risk == |
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+**===A. Moral uncertainty means preventing extinction should be our highest priority. ===** |
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+**Bostrom 1**2 Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority." Global Policy (2012) |
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+These reflections on moral uncertainty suggest an alternative, complementary way of looking at existential |
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+value**. To do this, **we must prevent any existential catastrophe.** |
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+**===B. Under util minimizing existential risk comes first – reducing the risk of extinction by even a tenth of a percentage point still outweighs massive structural violence.===** |
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+**Bostrom **1**2** â€"2012 Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford., Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority. Forthcoming book (Global Policy). MP. http://www.existenti...org/concept.pdf |
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+Even if we use the most conservative of these estimates, which entirely ignores the |
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+larger than the positive value of the direct benefit of such an action. |