Michael_Blume comments on How Many LHC Failures Is Too Many? - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 September 2008 09:38PM

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Comment author: Michael_Blume 20 September 2008 10:53:00PM 3 points [-]

I'm confused by your last comment - what use would the LHC be in a global economic crisis or nuclear war? I don't suppose you mean something like "rig the LHC to activate if the market does not recover by date X according to measure Y, and then we will only be able to *observe* the scenario in which the market does recover" or something like that, do you?

Comment author: drethelin 08 September 2015 12:50:58AM 0 points [-]

I think the idea is you only run it if you're already indifferent to the world being destroyed?