Ad_Putter comments on Investing for the Long Slump - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 January 2009 08:56AM

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Comment author: Ad_Putter 22 January 2009 07:54:02PM 0 points [-]

Yes, when people blithely say, 'Oh it'll be over by 2010 you bet', I have this exact thought. How do -you- know? How do you know it won't be -worse- than the GD, which after all took a giant war to fix?

As for, "Conditioning on the proposition that the Earth as we know it is still here in 2040, what might have happened during the preceding thirty years?" I think warming and wars and no epochal advances in technology.