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Peter McLaughlin's avatar

Worth saying that Bostrom's original definition of 'x-risk' was roughly equivalent to 'a risk that could stop us colonising space' (and this was the point) - obviously there are other definitions used today, but I think it's had an effect on the trajectory of the field and thinking about what's important about x-risk.

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