I think this bit is about other existential threats than AI. Nuclear war, engineered plagues, dumb gray goo, asteroids... A backup planet won't save us from super-AI but it does have its uses.
It's actually more complicated than that. You value saving the lives of people on the other boat (albeit much less than you value your own), there are "third options" with risks but interesting payoffs that are worth…
>it never stops to notice that the Joker is actually the hero. [...] his various games only have one innocent casualty Blowing up a major hospital (even an evacuated one - at very short notice I might add) or having…
I think this bit is about other existential threats than AI. Nuclear war, engineered plagues, dumb gray goo, asteroids... A backup planet won't save us from super-AI but it does have its uses.
It's actually more complicated than that. You value saving the lives of people on the other boat (albeit much less than you value your own), there are "third options" with risks but interesting payoffs that are worth…
>it never stops to notice that the Joker is actually the hero. [...] his various games only have one innocent casualty Blowing up a major hospital (even an evacuated one - at very short notice I might add) or having…