Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on New organization - Future of Life Institute (FLI) - LessWrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 June 2014 10:36:34PM 7 points [-]

It seems intuitively obvious to me that since the risk event is an absence of existence, we should call them \forall-risks.

Comment author: cousin_it 15 June 2014 11:55:20PM 3 points [-]

Yeah, universal risks instead of existential risks would've been a better name, probably too late to change now though.

Comment author: solipsist 16 June 2014 01:27:49AM * 6 points [-]

Alien teenagers sending robots to bitch-slap every human on earth is a universal risk of bitch-slapping, but isn't an existential risk to humanity.