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Manfred comments on Open thread, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 26 January 2015 05:41:10AM 0 points [-]

This is a nice paper, and is probably the sort of thing philosphers can really sink their teeth into. One thing I really wanted was some addressing of the basic "something that would cause much of what we value about the universe to be lost" definition of 'catastrophic', which you could probably even find Bostrom endorsing somewhere.