timtyler comments on Existential Risk - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lukeprog 15 November 2011 02:23PM

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Comment author: timtyler 15 November 2011 08:20:46PM *  5 points [-]

It would have made sense to use Bostrom's definition of existential risk, which focuses on earth-originating intelligent life instead. Replacement of humans by posthumans is not existential risk.

Some people hereabouts are concerned about some types of posthuman and "earth-originating intelligent life".