Well the EA's have designed their moral philosophy around the imagined trillions of humans who might exist in the future.... So that's why they, suggest donating to AI safety or anti-bioweapons causes, etc, over, say malaria treatments.
The calculus is, making sure that trillions of humans exist in the future > helping human beings today. It's a "Star Trek" time travel episode turned into moral philosophy.
Interesting.
yeah... Sorry to ramble, but a lot of silicon valley people are into this, which leads to some .... "weird" places. Like Elon's support for Trump, he's let slip occasionally stuff like "this is for the future of humanity", etc.
They make some "calculation" that they need to do one thing over the other because of the idea that it will mean life or death for the entire human race.
Obviously, I think those "projections" are overblown, particularly if you're applying them to something like the US POTUS race.
