dclayh comments on Extraterrestrial paperclip maximizers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dclayh 08 August 2010 09:21:56PM 6 points [-]

But there seems to me to be no reason to believe that it's more likely that our signals will reach friendly extraterrestrials than it is that our signals will reach unfriendly extraterrestrials.

In fact, as Eliezer never tires of pointing out, the space of unfriendliness is much larger than the space of friendliness.