timtyler comments on Bounding the impact of AGI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 19 December 2012 12:16:39PM *  2 points [-]

A reasonable guideline is limiting the human caused xrisk to several orders of magnitude below the natural background xrisk level, so that human-caused dangers are lost in the noise compared to the pre-existing threat we must live with anyway.

I like this idea [...]

We are well above there right now - and that's very unlikely to change before we have machine superintelligence.