gwern comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

gwern 27 Oct 2014 21:34 UTC
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1. human deaths are not irrelevant; a million deaths != no deaths.
2. pandemics are existential threats, which can drive species extinct; I trust you understand why ‘mad cow, the SARS, the bird flu and the swine flu’ are not counter-arguments to this point.
- A1987dM 28 Oct 2014 8:20 UTC
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  I trust you understand why ‘mad cow, the SARS, the bird flu and the swine flu’ are not counter-arguments to this point.
  
  No, I don’t.
  
  EDIT: Anthropics?