chron comments on Risk Contracts: A Crackpot Idea to Save the World - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: SquirrelInHell 30 September 2016 02:36PM

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Comment author: chron 01 October 2016 04:45:48AM 2 points [-]

So e.g. if I want to run a dangerous experiment that might destroy the world, it's totally OK as long as I can purchase enough of a risk budget.

And how does this system determine the probability that the experiment might destroy the world? You do realize that's the hard part.

Comment author: SquirrelInHell 01 October 2016 08:36:29PM -1 points [-]

Yes. as I mentioned in other comments, in practice you build safeguards and they give you some reduction of the upper bound on risk. So you use your risk budget to calculate how many safeguards you need to build.