Week 1 · A future worth surviving for

How much better could the future be?

Getting through the AI transition leaves another question open: what kind of lives become possible? The Better Futures argument asks us to examine both survival and the quality of what follows.

A large unrealized opportunity can still be hard to affect. Survival work may be more tractable, and the same institutions may improve both outcomes.

What drives your survival estimate and your conditional flourishing estimate? What evidence would change either?

Write the strongest objection to the flourishing argument in about 150 words.

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