{"id":858,"date":"2008-07-12T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=858"},"modified":"2012-06-18T23:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:10:41","slug":"eliezer-yudkowsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Eliezer Yudkowsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Spanish flu of 1918 killed 25-50 million people.  World War II killed 60 million people; 10<sup>7<\/sup> is the order of the largest catastrophes in humanity\u2019s written history.  Substantially larger numbers, such as 500 million deaths, and <em>especially<\/em> qualitatively different scenarios such as the extinction of the entire human species, seem to trigger a <em>different mode of thinking<\/em>\u2014enter  into a \u2018separate magisterium\u2019.  People who would never dream of hurting a child hear of an existential risk, and say, \u2018Well, maybe the human species doesn\u2019t really deserve to survive.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eliezer Yudkowsky, &#8216;Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgement of Global Risks&#8217;, in Nick Bostrom and Milan M. \u0106irkovi\u0107 (eds.), <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0198570503\/103-1144573-7423038?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=famouspeoplewith&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0198570503\">Global Catastrophic Risks<\/a><\/em>, Oxford, 2008, p. 114<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish flu of 1918 killed 25-50 million people. World War II killed 60 million people; 107 is the order of the largest catastrophes in humanity\u2019s written history. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286],"tags":[660,1665,575,1254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}