we take much more theoretical of dangers seriously.
Do we? How much resources is allocated to the risk of gray goo or, say, the Yellowstone supervolcano?
Talk is cheap.
Yes, it is, but talk and attention are the only resources LessWrong reliably provides at the moment.
Well then, bokov is talking about the overshoot so we’re good, right?
Depends on how motivated others will now be to bring up this issue.
But others are already allocating resources to the overshoot, in my opinion way more than it deserves.
In a useful way? Quite frankly, I don’t trust very many people at all to spend their resources in useful ways. And this includes people who frequent LessWrong.
Do we? How much resources is allocated to the risk of gray goo or, say, the Yellowstone supervolcano?
Talk is cheap.
Yes, it is, but talk and attention are the only resources LessWrong reliably provides at the moment.
Well then, bokov is talking about the overshoot so we’re good, right?
Depends on how motivated others will now be to bring up this issue.
But others are already allocating resources to the overshoot, in my opinion way more than it deserves.
In a useful way? Quite frankly, I don’t trust very many people at all to spend their resources in useful ways. And this includes people who frequent LessWrong.