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Gurkenglas comments on Quickly passing through the great filter - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: James_Miller 06 July 2014 06:50PM

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Comment author: Gurkenglas 06 July 2014 08:16:23PM *  4 points [-]

If the great filter comes after the arising of cooperative civilisation, then whatever it is, it is not something that can be reliably circumvented by following a strategy that more than 1% of all civilsations would come up with.

Comment author: James_Miller 06 July 2014 08:52:11PM 1 point [-]

I agree with you because of your use of the word "reliably". But could we non-trivially increase our chances of circumventing it by following a strategy that lots of civilizations could have implemented, but almost none chose to actually implement?