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12 Post author: Yvain 26 April 2009 09:23PM

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 26 April 2009 11:05:53PM 5 points [-]

interesting questions that you want asked... post each as a separate comment

Select the Existential Risk you judge most likely to occur this century?

  • Nuclear holocaust
  • Badly programmed superintelligence
  • Genetically engineered biological agent
  • Accidental misuse of nanotechnology (“gray goo”)
  • Environmental catastrophe (eg runaway global warming)
  • etc
Comment author: MichaelBishop 27 April 2009 04:36:18AM 2 points [-]

Why not ask for probabilities for each, and confidence intervals as well?