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Re:Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research? by yummyfajitas on Saturday January 30, 2016 @02:17PM (#11003277)
The "existential risk" talk tends to assume, to start with, that some wonderful, incredibly happy and nice "intergalactic civilization" of future transhumans or posthumans will exist...

Can you cite such a person? I've read quite a few folks concerned with existential risk, and never saw this assumption before.

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Re:Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research? by eli_gottlieb on Saturday January 30, 2016 @03:50PM (#11003672)
I was under the impression it came from Nick Bostrom. And other than some assumption or some Bostromian thought-experiment, where in the world did the phrase "trillions of descendants" even come from?
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