ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 14 February 2016 05:18:32PM *  3 points [-]

Why do people spend much, much more time worrying about their retirement plans than the intelligence explosion if they are a similar distance in the future?

Why do you think they are in similar distance in the future? If you take the LW median of a likely arrival of the intelligence explosion that's later than when most people are going to retire.

If you look at the general population most people consider the intelligence explosion even less likely.

Comment author: G0W51 15 February 2016 07:58:38PM 0 points [-]

It's later, but, unless I am mistaken, the arrival of the intelligence explosion isn't that much later than when most people will retire, so I don't think that fully explains it.

Comment author: ChristianKl 15 February 2016 09:26:03PM 1 point [-]

I think it's often double. Retiring in 40 years and expecting the intelligence explosion in 80 years.

Comment author: G0W51 20 February 2016 07:18:03PM 0 points [-]

That sounds about right.