William_Quixote comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: William_Quixote 19 January 2014 12:47:34PM 5 points [-]

GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISK: Pandemic (bioengineered): 374, 22.8% Environmental collapse including global warming: 251, 15.3% Unfriendly AI: 233, 14.2% Nuclear war: 210, 12.8% Pandemic (natural) 145, 8.8% Economic/political collapse: 175, 1, 10.7% Asteroid strike: 65, 3.9% Nanotech/grey goo: 57, 3.5% Didn't answer: 99, 6.0%

For the second year in a row Pandemic is the leading cat risk. If you include natural and designed it has twice the support of the next highest cat risk.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 19 January 2014 06:00:36PM 3 points [-]

For the second year in a row Pandemic is the leading cat risk.

That's because cats never build research stations.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 24 January 2014 03:19:23PM 2 points [-]

That surprised me slightly, more because I'm not particularly aware of discussion of bioengineered pandemics as an existential risk than that I don't think its plausible. Suppose this means a lot of people are worried about it but not discussing it?

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