wedrifid comments on What I would like the SIAI to publish - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 November 2010 01:23:12AM 1 point [-]

So when did the goalposts get moved to proving that hard takeoff is inevitable?

It doesn't even seem hard to prevent. Topple civilization for example. It's something that humans have managed to achieve regularly thus far and it is entirely possible that we would never recover sufficiently to construct a hard takeoff scenario if we nuked ourselves back to another dark age.