Lumifer comments on Existential Risk and Existential Hope: Definitions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 12 January 2015 04:03:38PM 0 points [-]

Cases of extinction that aren't existential risk for some people

These are not cases of extinction. Christians wouldn't call the Second Coming "extinction" -- after all, you are getting eternal life :-/ I wouldn't call total uploading "extinction" either.

Comment author: DanArmak 12 January 2015 04:30:36PM 1 point [-]

I would call Armageddon (as part of the Second Coming) extinction. And Christians would call forced total uploading extinction (as a form of death).