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All risks are hypothetical

Many items on the endless list of hypothetical x-risks don’t have big picture forces acting on them in quite the same way e.g. roughly infinite economic upside by getting within a hair’s breadth of realizing the risk.




No, some risks are known to exist, other just might exist. If you walk across a busy street without looking, there is a risk of being run over - nothing hypothetical about that risk. In contrast, I might fear the force gravity suddenly disappearing but that isn't an actual risk as far as we understand our reality.

Not sure where infinite economic upside comes from, how does that work?




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