Weedlayer comments on Rationality Quotes November 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Weedlayer 03 November 2014 05:01:06PM 16 points [-]

Also more than have died from UFAI. Clearly that's not worth worrying over either.

I'm not terrified of Ebola because it's been demonstrated to be controllable in fairly developed counties, but as a general rule this quote seems incredibly out of place on less wrong. People here discuss the dangers of things which have literally never happened before almost every day.

Comment author: gwern 02 December 2014 07:30:14PM *  2 points [-]

And for all the scaremongering over so-called 'dinosaur killer' asteroids, total casualties are very low (even including Chelyabinsk)!