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I always wonder how you do the risk calculus for this kind of scenario.

Clearly if the certainty of a world-ending impact is 100% then committing the entirety of humanities resources to deflecting it would be justified and expected.

But what about if the the certainty is 90%? 80%?

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Justifiable, yes. Expected, certainly not.

What does "committing the entirety of humanities resources" even look like? Anyway, this is certainly something that will never happen.

But committing a lot of resources, yes, we'll do that if it's 1% too.

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