2021
DOI: 10.5749/9781452967004
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Calamity Theory

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“…Not too surprisingly, longtermism has an attraction for proponents of space travel and venture capitalism beyond the earth, which Rubenstein has characterized as corporate 'Astrotopia' (see Rubenstein, 2021). It is ultimately limited by a concern with extreme scenarios about human extinction and leaves out a good deal else, such as the biodiversity (Schuster & Woods, 2021).…”
Section: The Question Of the Temporality Of The Futurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Not too surprisingly, longtermism has an attraction for proponents of space travel and venture capitalism beyond the earth, which Rubenstein has characterized as corporate 'Astrotopia' (see Rubenstein, 2021). It is ultimately limited by a concern with extreme scenarios about human extinction and leaves out a good deal else, such as the biodiversity (Schuster & Woods, 2021).…”
Section: The Question Of the Temporality Of The Futurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Outside of the community, critiques similarly contest ideological and technical underpinnings of x-risk and notions of intelligence. For instance, scholars have problematized Bostrom's prioritization of human intelligence above all other traits, especially given the historical harms that have been premised on hierarchies of individual or group-level intelligence (Colebrook, 2018;Schuster and Woods, 2021). Although Superintelligence was not the subject of these critiques, in it Bostrom describes genetic engineering as one of the mechanisms through which a superintelligent agent might be achieved.…”
Section: Public Critiquementioning
confidence: 99%
“…As pharmaka, x-values are not without risks. As Schuster and Woods (2021) have pointed out, existential risk thinking is not always planet-friendly, since while it remains true that concern for existential risk can promote resistance to the extractivist and productivist elements in the capitalist economy, it can also foster belief in the need to work towards becoming a multi-planetary civilization, given that even the most effective taming of our emissions will do nothing to palliate the long-term existential risks associated with volcanic eruptions, incoming meteorites, or a dying sun (MacAskill, 2022;Musk, 2017). Thus, given these dangers, it is unsurprising if some might feel tempted to join more classically post-modern ideology critics such as Zizek (2011) in throwing out all environmental criticism as mere ideology.…”
Section: X-valuesmentioning
confidence: 99%