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Armok_GoB comments on Open Thread: How much strategic thinking have you done recently? - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Emile 28 August 2013 11:48AM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 30 August 2013 09:55:51PM 3 points [-]

What abut minimizing the probability of those children, and everyone else's children, dyeing horribly, by working to reduce existential risk? What about making sure you can keep on being a father, and being rich, and so on by working towards immortality?

In general, if you're satisfied with what you have, work towards not losing it rather than getting more things.