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May 9, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Interdiction

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We often look out into the galaxy and wonder where all the civilizations are, but could it be that we don’t see them because they have all chosen to exist in fortress star systems, surrounded by despoiled deserts of their own making?

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May 6, 2024

Supercomputer predicts world will end with ‘triple whammy’ extinction event

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Supercomputer prediction about the end of the world is pretty much as bad as it sounds.

May 4, 2024

What is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and why are people worried about it?

Posted by in categories: existential risks, robotics/AI

Machines that could think and learn like humans. A blessing for humanity, or an existential threat?

May 1, 2024

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Galactic settlement of low mass stars as a resolution to the fermi paradox.


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Apr 29, 2024

Fermi Paradox: The Cambrian Explosion Solution and Fossil Arks

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An exploration of a potential solution to the Fermi Paradox within the Cambrian explosion period of geologic history, with an aside about fossil preservation in space.

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Apr 28, 2024

Holographic displays offer a glimpse into an immersive future

Posted by in categories: existential risks, finance

Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford, no longer had a future. It shut down without warning on 16 April. Initially there was just a brief statement on its website stating it had closed and that its research may continue elsewhere within and outside the university.

The institute, which was dedicated to studying existential risks to humanity, was founded in 2005 by the Swedish-born philosopher Nick Bostrom and quickly made a name for itself beyond academic circles – particularly in Silicon Valley, where a number of tech billionaires sang its praises and provided financial support.

Apr 28, 2024

The Future of Human Evolution?

Posted by in categories: biological, education, evolution, existential risks

Humanity will change. Or be replaced. Or go extinct. An exploration of the many potential posthuman offspring of humankind, from the biological to the artificial.

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Apr 26, 2024

Evolution Is Neither Random Accidents nor Divine Intervention: Biological Action Changes Genomes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, existential risks

Charles Darwin and his followers postulated that random accidental mutations of small effect plus natural selection over long periods would provide sufficient hereditary variation to explain biological diversity. Research since the middle of the twentieth century has unexpectedly shown that living organisms possess many different means of altering their genomes biologically, and these processes have been validated by DNA sequence analysis. In addition, the biological process of interspecific hybridization has become recognized as a major source of rapid speciation and genome amplification. Thus, it is time to shift our basic concept of evolutionary variation from the traditional model of slow change from non-biological sources to a fully biological model of rapid genome reorganization stimulated by challenges to reproduction.

Introduction

In Western society prior to the Enlightenment, there was little disagreement about the origins of biological diversity: it resulted from divine creation of an unchanging panorama of plant and animal species, as explained in Genesis. No thought was given to the idea that living organisms could change their fundamental natures. Even a scientist dedicated to analyzing the nature and classification of life forms, Carl Linnaeus (1707−1778), and one who documented the extinction of fossil organisms, Georges Cuvier (1769−1832), both believed in the fixity of species.

Apr 25, 2024

Institute for Extinction Risk Shuts Down: What We Know

Posted by in categories: computing, existential risks, mathematics

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The Future of Humanity Institute announced last week that they have shut down. Located at the University of Oxford in the UK prior to its demise, the institute was one of the few places worldwide studying the risk of human extinction and a few other controversial research areas. Let’s have a look at the events leading to the institute’s closure.

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Apr 14, 2024

Viropath and depopulation and the fermi paradox

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