JoshuaZ comments on Existential Risk - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 16 November 2011 02:37:42PM 2 points [-]

Needlessly distracting. Most people have enough trouble appreciating the scale of existential risk that their minds often shut down when thinking about it, or just try to change the subject. Adding into it other ideas which are larger scale and even more controversial is not a recipe for getting them to pay attention.