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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 14 September 2009 08:49:03PM 0 points [-]

Same here. Unless I am missing something (and please do tell me if I am), the knowledge gained by the LHC is very unlikely to help much to increase the rationality of civilization or to reduce existential risk, so the experiment can wait a few decades, centuries or millenia till civilization has become vastly more rational (and consequently vastly better able to assess the existential risk of doing the experiment).