FeepingCreature comments on Will the world's elites navigate the creation of AI just fine? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FeepingCreature 01 June 2013 05:11:55AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure what the correct way to approach this would be. I think it may be something like comparing the number of people in your immediate reference class - depending on preference, this could be "yourself precisely" or "everybody who would make or have made the same observation as you" - and then ask "how would nuclear war affect the distribution of such people in that alternate outcome". But that's only if you give each person uniform weighting of course, which has problems of its own.

Comment author: JonahSinick 01 June 2013 05:16:24AM 2 points [-]

Sure, these things are subtle — my point was that the numbers who would have perished isn't very large in this case, so that under a broad class of assumptions, one shouldn't take the observed absence of nuclear conflict to be a result of survivorship bias.