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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: CannibalSmith 27 April 2009 02:26:06PM -1 points [-]

You must also ask country of residence for this to be valid.

Comment author: hirvinen 27 April 2009 03:10:37PM 1 point [-]

I think we mean here by existential risks something alone the lines of, in Bostrom's words " - - either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life or drastically and permanently curtail its potential", making countries irrelevant.

Comment author: CannibalSmith 27 April 2009 07:21:15PM 0 points [-]

Oops, I misread "century" as "country".

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