Risto_Saarelma comments on Other Existential Risks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 19 August 2010 10:19:04AM 5 points [-]

I have no priors.

So let me see if I got this straight: Having no priors, you'd consider a possible extinction during the next hundred years to be exactly as likely to occur from, say, a high-energy physics experiment causing an uncontrollable effect that makes Earth uninhabitable, a non-friendly AI wiping out humans or the Earth just inexplicably and in blatant violation of the conservation of energy stopping perfectly in its orbit and plunging straight into the Sun, since none of those scenarios have any precedents.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 August 2010 12:09:43PM 1 point [-]

Even that scenario seems to suggest priors. Insane priors, but priors nonetheless.