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MrMind comments on The map of future models - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MrMind 04 July 2016 08:26:53AM 0 points [-]

Ah, but in the spiral there is a global risk, a sort of "yangization catastrophe" that we will enter if we are not able to tame history with a process of "yinnization":

We might expect an explosion: we reach the center point and most of mankind is wiped out by some cataclysm, perhaps self-inflicted.