Comment on Existential Risk and Public Relations

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:27:00 GMT

Good question. I'll get back to you on this when I get a chance, I should do a little bit of research on the topic first. The two examples that you've seen are the main ones that I have in mind that have been stated in public, but there may be others that I'm forgetting.

There are some other examples that I have in mind from my private correspondence with Michael Vassar. He's made some claims which I personally do not find at all credible. (I don't want to repeat these without his explicit permission.) I'm sold on the cause of existential risk reduction, so the issue in my top level post does not apply here. But in the course of the correspondence I got the impression that he may say similar things in private to other people who are not sold on the cause of existential risk.

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