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What problems would a baby born in 3000 AD want us to work on now?
Unsurprisingly given our psychology’s origin in evolution, humans spend most of their time thinking about everyday concerns: how to get food, stay clean, find friends, get laid, etc. Most of our...
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Reasons to care about existential risk III
Past reasons: Carl Sagan on Earth Why existential risk is the most important thing Reasons to care Tagged: existential risk, videos
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Reasons to care about existential risk IV
Reaching The Stars Is Easy Compared to Some Things, from Philhellenes. Very nicely put together. HT Alexander Kruel. “Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from...
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Is it bad to discriminate against fertile women in employment?
Carl Zimmerman forwarded me an interesting article challenging the value of maternity leave in breaking through the glass ceiling: Harriet Harman’s push for longer maternity leave is undeniably...
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Existential risk links
A Supernova Could Nuke Us Mass Market Survival Shelters Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization PHYS 20061 – Nuclear Warfare Might law save us from uncaring AI? Tagged: existential risk,...
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Does open trade make us more vulnerable to disasters?
In general as a production process gets more complex and requires many specialised and non-substitutable inputs, it is more vulnerable to disruption. This is proposed as a cause of collapse for many...
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Do humans make better predictions than computer models, and other stories
This is one of the most interesting presentations I’ve ever found online. That is has only 17,000 views is a disgrace, so go watch it now! Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs – Phillip...
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Get complex, get rich, get robust
At least the Japanese can video conference when their bullet trains break In my last post I discussed the short and medium run effects of increased trade and specialization on a society’s robustness....
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Things to think about
Most people are against cloning though I’ve never understood why. Is it just another technology that will be accepted once it’s possible? “My prediction: Once a few thousand cloned humans are walking...
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