PhilGoetz comments on Exterminating life is rational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 August 2009 03:59:34AM *  0 points [-]

I'm not pretending this is an airtight case. If you previously assumed that existential threats converge to zero as rationality increases; or that rationality is always the best policy; or that rationality means expectation maximization; and now you question one of those things; then you've gotten something out of it.