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RolfAndreassen comments on US default as a risk to mitigate - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: bokov 15 October 2013 04:41PM

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 15 October 2013 06:50:40PM 5 points [-]

The proposed scenario was "prolonged recession with severe government austerity", not "zombie apocalypse".

Comment author: bokov 16 October 2013 03:40:06AM -2 points [-]

To a first approximation, I suspect that a lot of the boring existential risks that don't involve things that tile the universe with stuff look pretty much the same by the time they roll around to the place you live: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Comment author: bokov 16 October 2013 05:00:29AM -1 points [-]

Oh, yeah, sorry, I forgot to make the connection back to non-boring existential threats:

To a first approximation, I suspect that a lot of the boring existential risks that don't involve things that tile the universe with stuff look pretty much the same by the time they roll around to the place you live: Democratic Republic of the Congo and people get so preoccupied with not starving that they lose interest in friendly AI and rationality except in its most instrumental applications.