timtyler comments on Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 02 March 2010 08:51:07PM 0 points [-]

Sure. Looking at the invention of powered flight, some people may even die - but that is a bit different from everyone dying.

Comment author: LucasSloan 03 March 2010 12:17:56AM 3 points [-]

Do we have any reason to believe that aeroplanes will be able to kill the human race, even if everything goes wrong?