hairyfigment comments on Existential Risk and Existential Hope: Definitions - LessWrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 17 January 2015 05:20:33PM *  0 points [-]

I don't know what you think you're saying - the definition no longer says that if you consider it to refer to E(V) as calculated by the agent at the first time (conditional on the "catastrophe").

ETA: "An existential catastrophe is an event which causes the loss of most expected value."