randallsquared comments on Exterminating life is rational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: randallsquared 09 August 2009 12:17:22AM 2 points [-]

At first I thought this was pretty funny, but even if you were joking, it may actually map to the extinction problem, since each new technology has a chance of making extinction less likely, as well. As an example, nuclear technology had some probability of killing everyone, but also some probability of making Orion ships possible, allowing diaspora.