Jesper_Ostman comments on What was your biggest recent surprise? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jesper_Ostman 10 June 2012 08:43:42PM 9 points [-]

That there is reason to believe that it is "relatively easy" (say if we survive x-risk and get a good singleton within a million years) to colonize billions of galaxies. That makes the expected (ignoring possibility of discovering new useful physics, creating universes etc) hedonic utility of x-risk reduction up to some 9-orders of magnitude greater than I had previously thought.