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tgb comments on 60m Asteroid currently assigned a .022% chance of hitting Earth. - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Locke 04 March 2012 07:19AM

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Comment author: tgb 04 March 2012 02:27:21PM 8 points [-]

I don't believe anyone was calling it an existential risk - rather using it as a reminder to people that such existential risks do exist and are not that far beyond what we see here. And, of course, that we can take active measures to oppose such risks and that we are not, in general, taking sufficient measures.