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Comment author: jimrandomh 09 December 2010 09:36:54PM 2 points [-]

There is a big mismatch here between "sending an email to a blogger" and "increase existential risk by one in a million". All of the strategies for achieving existential risk increases that large are either major felonies, or require abusing a political office as leverage. When you first made the threat, I got angry at you on the assumption that you realized this. But if all you're threatening to do is send emails, well, I guess that's your right.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 December 2010 09:45:28PM *  30 points [-]

LW is a place where you'll get useful help on weeding out mistakes in your plan to blow up the world, it looks like.

For Epistemic Rationality!

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 09 December 2010 09:49:55PM *  15 points [-]

That reminds me of the joke about the engineer in the French revolution.

Comment author: waitingforgodel 09 December 2010 09:41:30PM 0 points [-]

Are you joking? Do you have any idea what a retarded law can do to existential risks?

Comment author: jimrandomh 09 December 2010 09:45:44PM 5 points [-]

Are you joking? Do you have any idea what a retarded law can do to existential risks?

P(law will pass|it is retarded && its sole advocate publicly described it as retarded) << 10^-6