wedrifid comments on Sarah Connor and Existential Risk - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 May 2011 12:24:52AM 4 points [-]

Would you mind posting your reasoning

Timescale of life as we know it continuing to exist: Short
Timescale of killer asteroids hitting earth: Long

Comment author: JoshuaZ 02 May 2011 01:00:23AM 1 point [-]

Are we running into definitional issues of what we mean by "life as we know it?" That term has some degree of ambiguity that may be creating the problem.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 May 2011 02:39:49AM 0 points [-]

Are we running into definitional issues of what we mean by "life as we know it?" That term has some degree of ambiguity that may be creating the problem.

Quite possibly. Although one of the features of 'life as we know it' that will not survive for hundreds of millions of years is living exclusively on earth. So the disagreement would remain independently of definition.