saturn comments on Exterminating life is rational - Less Wrong

17 Post author: PhilGoetz 06 August 2009 04:17PM

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Comment author: saturn 08 August 2009 07:03:52AM 1 point [-]

I'm assuming that avoiding risks involves a tradeoff versus other forms of human welfare, and I don't see why a strategy that makes humanity worse off but longer lived is necessarily preferable to one that makes humanity better off but shorter lived.

And yes, we're "doomed" in the sense that, as far as I understand, an infinitely long existence isn't an available option.