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turchin comments on Roadmap: Plan of Action to Prevent Human Extinction Risks - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: turchin 01 June 2015 09:58AM

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Comment author: turchin 08 June 2015 07:46:12PM *  1 point [-]

I got your idea: I think it should be covered in x-risk law. Something like Article 1: Any one, who consciously or unconsciously is rising x-risks will go to jail.

Ozone level depletion is not proved to be extinction level event, but is really nasty thing anyway. It could be solved without nanobots, by injecting right chemicals.

NASA is planning to attract small asteroid so it may work, but can't be main solution. May be useful step. Market forces will rise uranium supply.

You don't need a lot of uranium if you are going to enrich it in centrifuges.

If you are really going to limit supply, its better to try to buy all the best scientists in field. US in 90s were buying Russian scientists who worked previously on secret biological weapons.

Comment author: Elo 09 June 2015 04:55:35AM 0 points [-]

The other advantage of forcing people to use a limited supply of radioactive material in a reaction would be enhanced safety of doing so as well. (in the case of a failure there will be less total material to account for)