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Comment author: Lumifer 01 October 2015 03:05:00PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Torgo 02 October 2015 12:38:57AM -1 points [-]

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).