I didn’t see a single mention of economic risk, obsolescence, or jobs. It seems like 99.9% of humans being useless mouths to feed is not a concern for x-risk folks so long as the 0.1% are still around.
Rather than being a vague, hard to imagine threat like an omniscient robot which for some reason is smart enough to build planet-to-paperclip factories but not smart enough to understand that’s not what humans would want, economic obsolescence isn’t just a known threat, it’s all but certain. Maybe it’s less exciting for the Bostrom class to think about, but it’s far more practical.
Rather than being a vague, hard to imagine threat like an omniscient robot which for some reason is smart enough to build planet-to-paperclip factories but not smart enough to understand that’s not what humans would want, economic obsolescence isn’t just a known threat, it’s all but certain. Maybe it’s less exciting for the Bostrom class to think about, but it’s far more practical.