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Comment author: KPier 28 October 2012 06:38:32AM 5 points [-]

LW paying RW this much attention while also claiming that the entire future of human value itself is at stake looks on the surface like a failure of apportionment of cognitive resources, but perhaps I've missed something.

What do you mean by "this much attention"? If Konkvistador's links at the top are reasonably comprehensive (and a quick search doesn't turn up much more), there have been 2 barely-upvoted discussion posts about RW in four years, which hardly seems like much attention. For comparison, LW has devoted several times as much energy to dating advice.

Is there a lot of discussion of RW that I'm missing, or are you claiming that even two posts in Discussion is totally excessive?

Comment author: David_Gerard 28 October 2012 11:49:49AM 6 points [-]

I suppose I'm really thinking of an LW regular telling me in conversation that they consider RW a serious existential risk. You know, serious enough to even think about compared to everything else in the world.

Comment author: gwern 28 October 2012 04:57:04PM 4 points [-]

Who was that?

Comment author: David_Gerard 28 October 2012 09:29:13PM 2 points [-]

Answered privately - it's that the statement happened, not who made it.