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Comment author: CellBioGuy 15 May 2013 01:14:37AM *  1 point [-]

it would lead to a rapidly diminishing amount of variety among humans, which would be sad

Not to mention dangerous. Dissensus is one of the few nearly-universally effective insurance policies.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 15 May 2013 11:39:19AM 1 point [-]

Dissensus is one of the few nearly-universally effective insurance policies.

Or possibly a good way to get everyone killed. For example suppose any sufficiently intelligent being can build a device to trigger a false vacuum catastrophe.

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