Grognor comments on Existential Risk - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Grognor 16 November 2011 02:14:11PM 8 points [-]

the image is self-explanatory.

I didn't understand it. It didn't self-explain to me.

Non-transhumanists ought to open up their eyes to the potential of the light cone, and introducing them to that potential, whether directly or indirectly, is one of the big tasks we have.

Woah! That's quite a leap! But hold on a second! This isn't meant to be literature, is it? It doesn't seem to me that an explanation of this kind benefits from having hidden meanings and whatnot, especially ideological ones like that.

Nitpicking on ringworld vs. stanford torus is not relevant, or interesting.

Agreed.

Suggesting that the Earth picture itself doesn't belong in the post shows some kind of general bias against visuals, or something.

This is a Fully General Counterargument that you could use on objections to any image, no matter what the image is, and no matter what the objection is.

As for me, I'm not really Blue or Green on whether to keep the image. It's really pretty, but the relevance is dubious at best and nonexistent at worst.