  Tyrrell_McAllister2 comments on LA-602 vs. RHIC Review - Less
Wrong  30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 June 2008 10:00AM
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thread.  Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister2 19 June 2008
05:22:47PM 0 points [-]  What makes you think they don't?  I
acknowledge that they probably do so with some nonzero number of
projects. But I take Eliezer to be advocating that it happen
with all projects that carry existential risk. And that's not
happening; otherwise Eliezer wouldn't have had the example of
the RHIC to use in this post. Now, perhaps, notwithstanding the
RHIC, the government already is classifying nearly all basic
science research that carries an existential threat, but I doubt
it. Do you argue that the government is doing that? Certainly,
if it's already happening, then I'm wrong in thinking that that
would be prohibitively difficult in a democracy.  1) Existential
risk is real and warrants government-funded research.   2) The
results, if useful