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

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Comment author: steven0461 15 November 2011 11:50:05PM 5 points [-]

This is a good intro to human extinction, but Bostrom coined "existential risk" specifically to include more subtle ways of losing the universe's potential value. If you're not going to mention those, might as well not use the term.