army1987 comments on Open question on the certain 'hot' global issue of importance to FAI - Less Wrong

-6 Post author: Dmytry 23 March 2012 08:20AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 March 2012 01:32:35PM -1 points [-]

Yeah, in the Bostrom sense of something irreversibly destroying all Earth-originating intelligent life or irreversibly preventing it from colonizing other planets it isn't; but then neither is thermonuclear war -- several hundred millions, possibly billions of people would likely survive one.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 23 March 2012 05:07:36PM 4 points [-]

but then neither is thermonuclear war

We don't often discuss thermonuclear war in LessWrong either.