I was looking at a blog into the business of evaluating possible philanthropic donations, and expressing in a more formalised way - and perhaps in a better English :-)  - my own more extrinsic objections against the dominant narratives at the Singularity Institute at<br>

<a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/cbs/thoughts_on_the_singularity_institute_si/" target="_blank">http://lesswrong.com/lw/cbs/thoughts_on_the_singularity_institute_si/</a><br>and I found some stuff which could be put at use in any discussion of x-risks, not to mention Max's ongoing work on the deconstruction of the Precautionary Principle:<br>

<a href="http://blog.givewell.org/2011/08/18/why-we-cant-take-expected-value-estimates-literally-even-when-theyre-unbiased/" target="_blank">http://blog.givewell.org/2011/08/18/why-we-cant-take-expected-value-estimates-literally-even-when-theyre-unbiased/</a><br>

<br>Food for thought...<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>