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Izeinwinter comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Izeinwinter 18 September 2014 02:44:51PM -2 points [-]

Eh, Ill stand by my reasoning, but I agree other people might not assign as high probabilities to each step in the chain as I do, so here is a much simpler causative chain that is going to lead to the same place.

China isn't going to keep sacrificing tens of thousands of it's people to the demon smog every year. And once the chinese are knocking of reactors at a high pace, the rest of the world will follow.

Comment author: Lumifer 18 September 2014 03:16:06PM 2 points [-]

China isn't going to keep sacrificing tens of thousands of it's people to the demon smog every year.

And a simple solution to this is just to copy the current-day US which does not use a lot of nuclear power and also does not sacrifice many people to the demon smog.