UngnsCobra comments on Existential risks open thread - Less Wrong

10 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 31 March 2013 12:52AM

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Comment author: UngnsCobra 31 March 2013 03:50:54PM 0 points [-]

(not sure this is the right answer) Potentially FHI prize competition could be seen as an attempt to pursue that end? ( http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/prize , it's closed now)

Comment author: buybuydandavis 01 April 2013 01:09:11AM 0 points [-]

Interesting.

They seem more focused on general problem solving than game changing, but just raising the questions they do is game changing in a way. The blue team is Us, and what would harm us is Them. Getting people to increasingly view everyone else as Us would be game changing.

One of the things that cheers me about Death - it's a common bond with everyone else. Well, those living today for an afterlife tomorrow probably aren't so much part of that common bond, but maybe they'll come around someday.