Hopefully_Anonymous comments on Investing for the Long Slump - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 23 January 2009 09:26:41PM 3 points [-]

"Here's an odd bias I notice among the AI and singularity crowd: a lot of us seem to only plan for science-fictional emergencies, and not for mundane ones like economic collapse. Why is that?"

One hypothesis: because the value in the planning (and this may be rational, if nontransparent) is primarily for entertainment purposes.