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shminux comments on Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2013 05:20AM

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Comment author: shminux 18 April 2013 04:14:47PM 3 points [-]

Can someone point to MIRI's estimates (with justifications) of various x-risks and the odds of mitigating them? Just wondering how, in MIRI's view, the FAI work stacks up against other disaster prevention efforts. I can't seem to find this information on their site.

Comment author: Jack 18 April 2013 06:36:37PM 6 points [-]

One relevant point is that successfully building an FAI mitigates other x-risks.

Comment author: DaFranker 19 April 2013 02:12:59PM 0 points [-]

A potentially-relevant sub-point is that successfully building a fast explosive fooming FAI optimally reduces all x-risks.