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Comment author: Baughn 25 September 2014 04:56:46PM *  2 points [-]
  • CEV results in a functional, human-like society very much like our own, including most or all of the features that non-typical people such as those speculating on CEV might consider horrifying.
Comment author: snarles 25 September 2014 06:31:40PM 0 points [-]

This is pretty close to 1c

Comment author: Baughn 26 September 2014 01:42:13PM 0 points [-]

"But this time without the option of fixing it," I suppose I should add. You're right, it's close; the related nightmare would be a society where even the isolated communities of sane people similar to myself are missing.

(I'm aware that the 'average human' would probably have the same objection in reverse, considering that I'd like to eliminate their society. Well, yeah...)

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