timtyler comments on Q&A with new Executive Director of Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 07 November 2011 01:25:10PM 1 point [-]

The first point looks like this one. The case for the Doomsday Argument implying problems looks weak to me. It just says that there (probably) won't be lots of humans around in the future. However, IMO, that is pretty obvious - humans are unlikely to persist far into an engineered future.