Open thread, Sep. 21 - Sep. 27, 2015

MrMind

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If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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Obviously this is not a likely extinction event, but I believe it is still worth considerable resources to reduce its probability.

The second part of that sentence oh so does not follow from the first part.

That's why they are separated by the word "but". If I were to say "it rained yesterday, but today it looks like it will be sunny", would you object that "sun today doesn't follow from rain yesterday"?

0Torgo11y

I believe we should be spending resources to avoid many unlikely existential risks, even those I believe are less likely to be existential risks than climate change (eg. tracking asteroids).

3[anonymous]11y

That's very hard to say without quantifying "likely" and "considerable". One could say the same about most extinction events, for certain definitions of those two words.