[ExI] How to survive forever

[Anders Sandberg]

On 15/06/2012 10:25, BillK wrote:
> All I was saying was that you shouldn't mention impossible risks.
> The end of civilisation, EMP  attack / nuclear wars, etc. are quite
> sufficient to be going on with.

But these are not *impossible* risks! Impossible risks are by definition 
no problem. Our paper is not some engineering paper, but a mathematical 
analysis. And there extreme low probability events turn out to be a 
major factor since there is no way they can be avoided.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University