ciphergoth comments on Mini advent calendar of Xrisks: nuclear war - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 04 December 2012 12:25:25PM 5 points [-]

Could nuclear winter really kill everyone? It feels like there's a lot of investigation yet to be done on sorting the existential risks from the global catastrophic risks.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 December 2012 12:40:41PM 3 points [-]

Yes, there does need to be. We're working on some aspects of this, especially Anders Sandberg (who's considering population fragmentation and vulnerability to other risks, minimal population needed for technology, and so on.