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Alejandro1 comments on Quotes on Existential Risk - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: lukeprog 28 April 2012 02:01AM

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Comment author: Alejandro1 28 April 2012 08:32:13AM *  2 points [-]

Maybe he means that most people (out of everyone, including those who never have considered the question) would give that answer if asked out of the blue.

Comment author: gjm 28 April 2012 08:03:28PM 0 points [-]

Yes, perhaps he does, but if so I don't know why he's paying any attention -- in a quite technical work of philosophy aimed at professional philosophers -- to the question of what "most people" would unreflectively say to a question of that sort.