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Lumifer comments on [Link] On Saving the World and Other Delusions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 March 2015 07:47:41PM 5 points [-]

The question isn't what we think, the question is whether in fact every person is "extraordinary impactful".

As a baseline may I suggest the humans during Pleistocene?