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

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 17 January 2015 05:30:41PM 1 point [-]

That requires a precise meaning of expected value in this context that includes only certain varieties of uncertainty.

Kind-of? You assess past expected values in light of information you have now, not just the information you had then. That way, finding out bad news isn't the catastrophe.