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JoshuaZ comments on Ben Goertzel interviews Michael Anissimov regarding existential risk [link] - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 24 April 2011 03:04:20AM 1 point [-]

Sure. If we had a tight, robust framework for how civilizations arise and what was required for them to arise, this would be a bad demand for particular proof. I'd be just as happy to see that. So it might have been better if my initial comment had been of the form "without any strong theoretical framework, this requires a sample size larger than 1".