PhilGoetz comments on This Failing Earth - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2009 04:09PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 27 May 2009 07:20:30PM *  0 points [-]

I'm curious why people hate this comment so much. Is it just that they don't like hearing that we're likely to fail?

I'm also curious why most people haven't upvoted this post by EY. Same reason?

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 27 May 2009 07:32:26PM 1 point [-]

I didn't downvote your comment, but for me, "they don't seem to have failed after achieving AI, so I don't know if that really tells us much" is an overwhelmingly strong objection to drawing any conclusion about existential risk from the Great Silence.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 09 June 2009 03:44:51AM 0 points [-]

If it's an overwhelmingly strong objection, why would people downvote me for raising it?