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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Irrationality Game III - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: CellBioGuy 12 March 2014 01:51PM

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Comment author: Squark 14 March 2014 12:25:17PM 0 points [-]

What is the extinction scenario you have in mind?

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 14 March 2014 05:28:22PM 0 points [-]

Hopefully no extinction during the next many thousends of years. Which extinction afterwards is difficult to predict.

As I shortly argued in my baseline post I think that posthuman state is unlikely due to thermodynamics/complexity constraints.