High Risk, Low Reward
A Challenge to the Astronomical Value of Existential Risk Mitigation
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6325603 |
|---|---|
| Autores | David Thorstad (0000-0003-1985-8931, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 373-412 |
| Data de publicação | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Philosophy & Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0048-3915 • E-ISSN: 1088-4963 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/papa.12248 |
| OpenAlex | W4386115172 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 14 |
| Referências citadas | 10 |
Derek Parfit invites us to consider two scenarios.In the first, a war kills 99% of the world's human population.Such an event, Parfit urges, would be a great tragedy.Billions would die and the rest would suffer terribly.Nations would fall.Cities and monuments would be destroyed.Recovering from such a catastrophe would take centuries.In a second scenario, the same war kills every living human.This event, Parfit holds, would be many times worse than the first.Unthinkably, many future lives would fail to be lived. 1Our projects would remain forever incomplete and our purposes unfulfilled
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Existentialism · Humanity · Political science · Population · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Value (mathematics · Law · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
Causation, Cluelessness, and the Long Term
Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy
Expected choiceworthiness and fanaticism
Mistakes in the Moral Mathematics of Existential Risk
People make suboptimal decisions about existential risks
The Scope of Longtermism
The Washout Argument against Longtermism
Social beneficence
Longtermism and aggregation
Does the value of rational activity explain the badness of human extinction
What we owe (to) the present
Methodologies of Uncertainty
From Bednets to Rocket Ships
The Freedom of Future People
Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
Ethics and Global Climate Change
Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority
Discounting climate change
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Representing future generations
Astronomical Waste
Space colonization remains the only long-term option for humanity
Our Moral Obligation to Support Space Exploration
The Rejection of Consequentialism
| Obras citantes distintas | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 7 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 14 |