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siIver comments on Seven Apocalypses - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: scarcegreengrass 20 September 2016 02:59AM

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Comment author: siIver 20 September 2016 10:47:12AM 1 point [-]

Can you elaborate a bit on what exactly is your intention?

Specifically, is this meant to be a scale of severity categories with one example for each, or is it meant as an exhaustive list of all relevant apocalyptic scenarios put into a ranking?

Comment author: scarcegreengrass 20 September 2016 01:42:36PM 0 points [-]

A scale of roughly-ordered tiers. It's a shorthand for expressing the level of devastation in far-future failure modes.