I'm not sure what that means. If an asteroid is on track to wipe us out, does deflecting it count as "gardening", or could sitting back and doing nothing count as a form of "wrecking"?
In any case, I think a sensible degree of epistemic humility doesn't entail full-blown moral skepticism (as if we should be unsure whether to bother saving…
I'm not sure what that means. If an asteroid is on track to wipe us out, does deflecting it count as "gardening", or could sitting back and doing nothing count as a form of "wrecking"?
In any case, I think a sensible degree of epistemic humility doesn't entail full-blown moral skepticism (as if we should be unsure whether to bother saving innocent lives), but just calls for things like (i) avoiding value lock-in, (ii) encouraging Millian "experiments in living", and (iii) preferring *robustly* good options (e.g. increase human knowledge and capacities) over morally *risky* ones (e.g. trapping humanity in experience machines). These are all standard longtermist ideas: https://rychappell.substack.com/p/review-of-what-we-owe-the-future#%C2%A7improving-values-and-institutions
I'm not sure what that means. If an asteroid is on track to wipe us out, does deflecting it count as "gardening", or could sitting back and doing nothing count as a form of "wrecking"?
In any case, I think a sensible degree of epistemic humility doesn't entail full-blown moral skepticism (as if we should be unsure whether to bother saving innocent lives), but just calls for things like (i) avoiding value lock-in, (ii) encouraging Millian "experiments in living", and (iii) preferring *robustly* good options (e.g. increase human knowledge and capacities) over morally *risky* ones (e.g. trapping humanity in experience machines). These are all standard longtermist ideas: https://rychappell.substack.com/p/review-of-what-we-owe-the-future#%C2%A7improving-values-and-institutions