PhilGoetz comments on Disambiguating Doom - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 30 March 2010 04:05:12AM *  -2 points [-]

It still appears the same to me.

No humans surviving is a very different set of possible worlds than no human-like life surviving. No humans surviving is my default assumption; the latter is not.

Sentient life could be very un-human. Intelligent life could be non-sentient.

Comment author: steven0461 30 March 2010 05:50:16AM *  0 points [-]

I know. The original said "slightly modified" because the modifications were only one word. The current version makes no claims about whether the modifications are slight in any sense.