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50 Post author: Apprentice 10 January 2014 03:52PM

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Comment author: drethelin 10 January 2014 10:47:30PM 8 points [-]

I think it's more about how annoying it is when someone shuts down or tries to shut down someone working on a shorter term issue by saying it won't matter anyway. It's safer to have people working both on the singularity and on how to not die from diseases even if the singularity will cure all diseases when it happens.