loqi comments on Cascio in The Atlantic, more on cognitive enhancement as existential risk mitigation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: loqi 19 June 2009 04:30:12PM 2 points [-]

And notice that it didn't provoke a nuclear war, and the human race still exists. Nuclear weapons weren't an existential threat until multiple parties obtained them. If MAD isn't a concern in using a given weapon, it doesn't sound like much of an existential threat.