Lumifer comments on Organisations working on multiple Global Catastrophic risks - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 May 2014 10:37AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 22 May 2014 07:40:33PM 6 points [-]

What exactly is a Global Catastrophic Risk?

Seeing how "chemical weapons" or "poverty" made the list, I am quite confused about the scope of this concept.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 23 May 2014 11:01:25AM 1 point [-]

Poverty is on the list for complicated reasons that aren't all that interesting. Some people do define chemical weapons as having catastrophic potentials; I don't agree with that, but I can't reject it out of hand.