This is a good intro to human extinction, but Bostrom coined “existential risk” specifically to include more subtle ways of losing the universe’s potential value. If you’re not going to mention those, might as well not use the term.
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This is a good intro to human extinction, but Bostrom coined “existential risk” specifically to include more subtle ways of losing the universe’s potential value. If you’re not going to mention those, might as well not use the term.