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Difference Making Ambiguity Aversion
If you're averse to ambiguity in the total prospect faced by humanity there seems no particular reason to think that you funding existential risk mitigation will reduce that total uncertainty. After all it was already extremely ambiguous what the prospect of doom was. So maybe difference making ambiguity aversion is on better ground than difference making risk aversion. Okay so where are we now? We've framed everything in terms of our desire to make a difference we've tried to combine that with risk aversion in what seemed like a natural way and have been led to different making risk aversion then we've noticed that difference makingrisk aversion seems to be intention with what pure benevolence would recommend in at least some cases. Perhaps interestingly if you