turchin comments on Caught in the glare of two anthropic shadows - Less Wrong

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Comment author: turchin 30 July 2015 05:47:21PM 0 points [-]

This line or reasoning is known as anthropic shadow. The worst case here is that a catastrophe is long overdue, and our world is in meta-stable condition about it. Small our actions could provoke it. (Like methane-hydrates release could result in catastrophic global warming)