[ExI] Planetary defense

[Anders Sandberg]

natasha at natasha.cc wrote:
>
> New phrasing: Human Extinction Risk is a better phrase than 
> Existential Risk.

While it makes the term immediately understandable to most people it 
also misses a lot of important disaster types. The 1984 scenario of a 
boot stamping on a face forever is not extinction, yet I think it 
deserves to be regarded in the same category of transgenerational and 
terminal risks.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute 
James Martin 21st Century School 
Philosophy Faculty 
Oxford University