Luke_A_Somers comments on Justifiable Erroneous Scientific Pessimism - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 May 2013 08:37PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 09 May 2013 05:35:02AM 1 point [-]

It's crucial to the original point that Eliezer was making, which was differentiating technological pessimism from technological optimism.

This isn't technology, and though it makes a difference to the universe as a whole, it wouldn't be better or worse for us either way.