ClaimsEliezer Yudkowsky

“Substantially larger numbers, such as 500 million deaths, and especially qualitatively different scenarios such as the extinction of the entire human species, seem to trigger a different mode of thinking - enter into a "separate magisterium".”

Eliezer Yudkowsky 2008 Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks (UC Berkeley (hosted))

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Substantially larger numbers, such as 500 million deaths, and especially qualitatively different scenarios such as the extinction of the…

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Substantially larger numbers, such as 500 million deaths, and especially qualitatively different scenarios such as the extinction of the…” (said 2008). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_86195ecf5367, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_86195ecf5367

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