Lethalmud comments on New organization - Future of Life Institute (FLI) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lethalmud 13 June 2014 12:38:57PM 3 points [-]

I cringe at the term x-risk.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 13 June 2014 01:38:50PM 9 points [-]

Why?

Comment author: Lethalmud 13 June 2014 07:33:57PM 6 points [-]

It looks childish to me. its looks the same as x-treme.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XMakesAnythingCool

I guess its just me, and its of no real consequence. But it seems to trivialize such a serious subject as existential risk.

Comment author: arromdee 13 June 2014 09:34:09PM 4 points [-]

Since you invoked TV Tropes, there's a TV Tropes fork at https://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/ . It gets rid of the censorship at TV Tropes and also uses mediawiki, which makes things work better--you have real categories, it is possible to edit sections, etc.

Comment author: Nornagest 13 June 2014 09:42:50PM *  1 point [-]

So one of these finally got some traction, huh? That's mildly encouraging, although a straight fork without the censorship might have long-term problems distinguishing itself -- even with the better wiki software.

Regardless, probably better suited to the open thread.

Comment author: Robin 14 June 2014 08:16:49PM 5 points [-]

I cringe at the term x-risk.

Can you think of another five letter description? The shorter the term, the easier of a time people will have remembering it and thus the meme will spread faster than a longer term.

Comment author: soreff 14 June 2014 11:15:13PM 6 points [-]

Can one use the backwards-E existence symbol as one of the letters?

Comment author: B_For_Bandana 15 June 2014 12:09:32PM 17 points [-]

If we want ease-of-use, the fact that you typed out "backwards-E existence symbol" instead of "∃" isn't encouraging...

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 June 2014 10:36:34PM 7 points [-]

It seems intuitively obvious to me that since the risk event is an absence of existence, we should call them \forall-risks.

Comment author: cousin_it 15 June 2014 11:55:20PM 3 points [-]

Yeah, universal risks instead of existential risks would've been a better name, probably too late to change now though.

Comment author: solipsist 16 June 2014 01:27:49AM *  6 points [-]

Alien teenagers sending robots to bitch-slap every human on earth is a universal risk of bitch-slapping, but isn't an existential risk to humanity.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 June 2014 07:10:16AM 4 points [-]

What matters is not how many people will remember it, it's how many people will remember it and take it seriously.

Comment author: Lumifer 14 June 2014 08:25:19PM 3 points [-]

The shorter the term, the easier of a time people will have remembering it and thus the meme will spread faster than a longer term.

Well...

Is x-risk what happens when x-men do x-rated x-treme stuff?

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