[ExI] Existential Risks might be underestimated

[Keith Henson]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:30 AM, William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Tara Maya <tara at taramayastales.com> wrote:
>
>> Again, I?d just like to point out there?s no proof more is not better.
>>
>> You can assert it is not.
>>
>> I hereby assert: More is better. The more humans the better. We don?t have
>> nearly enough yet to even imagine what will become.
>>
>> We are still in the infancy of our sentience and haven?t even left the
>> cradle yet.
>>
>> Tara Maya
>>
>
> ?Define 'better'. I say we are polluting the planet far more than our
> species is worth.?
>
> ?  Fouling our nest, as if we are the only things in the universe worth
> anything.?

Bill you missed your cue.  "Leaving the cradle" refers to the point
where more humans live off planet (or perhaps are uploaded) than live
on it.

Keith