bokov comments on Blind Spot: Malthusian Crunch - Less Wrong

4 Post author: bokov 18 October 2013 01:48PM

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Comment author: bokov 19 October 2013 02:26:43AM 1 point [-]

I realized as I was writing this that the overshoot is kind of like AIDS or aging-- it doesn't kill you directly, just predisposes you toward things that will.

I'll edit it so the union of the whole set of conditional-on-overshoot disasters plus "other" is the likelihood of overshoot itself.

Comment author: Lumifer 19 October 2013 02:30:52AM 3 points [-]

OK then, you put forward an estimate: an overshoot is very likely. Now what makes you think so?