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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.