paper-machine comments on Rationality Quotes September 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 September 2013 10:26:15PM * 3 points [-]

If it's an existential risk, it kills everyone, selfishness suffices just fine.

A selfish person protecting against existential risk builds a bunker and stocks it with sixty years of foodstuffs. That doesn't exactly help much.

Comment author: private_messaging 15 September 2013 01:23:23AM * 1 point [-]

The quality of life in a bunker is really damn low. Not to mention that you presumably won't survive this particular risk in a bunker.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 15 September 2013 01:18:52AM 1 point [-]

For what existential risks is this actually an effective strategy?

Comment author: ciphergoth 15 September 2013 08:48:33AM 1 point [-]

A global pandemic that kills everyone?