Tim_Tyler comments on The First World Takeover - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 November 2008 03:00PM

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 19 November 2008 07:16:51PM 0 points [-]

I don't yet see why exactly Eliezer is dwelling on the origin of replicators.

Check with the title: if you are considering the possibility of a world takeover, it obviously pays to examine the previous historical genetic takeovers.

Oh, and it's called the Great Filter.