Dorikka comments on Existential Risk II - Less Wrong

10 Post author: fowlertm 20 October 2013 12:25AM

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Comment author: Dorikka 20 October 2013 02:21:15AM *  0 points [-]

I have not read your post yet, but thought I'd mention that intro posts are sometimes liked more if they have a emotion-evoking picture.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 20 October 2013 08:35:48AM *  9 points [-]

Also, research shows that the most popular pictures on internet are the pictures of cats.

Therefore, as a first step towards existential risk awareness, we need an official Existential Risk Cat mascot.

(I am not an artist, but I imagine a black cat with stars or galaxies in its fur, playing with a ball of string... where the ball is the Earth. If you are an artist, this is probably your best way to contribute to the future of humanity, so please give it a try...)

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 October 2013 04:11:51AM 3 points [-]

We could also go with a Moe Anthropomorphism.

Comment author: DaveK 23 October 2013 06:56:05AM *  2 points [-]

Since the idea is existential risk, why not just use Tacgnol? It works especially well, since tacgnol also represents scope insensitivity. (Gnoool si Tacgnol.)

Comment author: Lumifer 22 October 2013 03:04:24AM 2 points [-]

I vote for Grumpy Cat

Comment author: Lumifer 22 October 2013 03:02:38AM 2 points [-]

A bad sci-fi paperback cover? Preferably with alien bugs ravishing a cute semi-naked human girl.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 23 October 2013 07:14:33PM 2 points [-]

The problem is to a large extent to get people to not dismiss existential risk as scifi. In that regard, this is almost the exact opposite of what would make a good cover.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2013 09:22:12AM 1 point [-]

What about the plot of severity vs scope? OK maybe it's not quite a "picture" but surely the "emotion-evoking" box is ticked.