taw comments on Optimal Philanthropy for Human Beings - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 27 July 2011 05:15:54AM 6 points [-]

With asteroid strike everybody agrees on risk within order of magnitude or two. We have a lot of historical data about asteroid strikes of various sizes, can use power level distribution to smooth it a bit etc.

With UFAI people's estimate are about as divergent as with Second Coming of Jesus Christ, ranging from impossible even in theory through essentially impossible all the way to almost certain.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 28 July 2011 09:25:06PM -1 points [-]

Money spent on mind uploading is a better defense against asteroids than asteroid detection. At least for me.