blacktrance comments on 2014 Survey Results - Less Wrong

87 Post author: Yvain 05 January 2015 07:36PM

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Comment author: William_Quixote 05 January 2015 03:10:28PM *  15 points [-]

Once again pandemic is the leading cat risk. It was the leading cat risk last year. http://lesswrong.com/lw/jj0/2013_survey_results/aekk It was the leading cat risk the year before that. http://lesswrong.com/lw/fp5/2012_survey_results/7xz0

Pandemics are the risk LWers are most afraid of and to my knowledge we as a community have expended almost no effort on preventing them.

So this year I resolve that my effort towards pandemic prevention will be greater than simply posting a remark about how it's the leading risk.

Comment author: blacktrance 05 January 2015 08:54:39PM 19 points [-]

Clearly, we haven't been doing enough to increase other risks. We can't let pandemic stay in the lead.

Comment author: Ander 07 January 2015 12:32:06AM 1 point [-]

Get to work on making more AIs everyone!