army1987 comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 February 2014 06:16:05PM 0 points [-]

Bostrom's definition of a crunch ("The potential of humankind to develop into posthumanity[7] is permanently thwarted although human life continues in some form") isn't coextensive with ChristianKI's "90% of the human population dying by 2100", and dysgenics seems far less likely to cause the latter than the former.

I agree. I guess that ChristianKl guessed that by “the list of existential risks” baiter meant the one in the survey, but I was charitable to baiter and assumed he meant it in a more abstract sense.