Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 963
Jun 30, 2018
Oxygen On Earth Originated A Billion Years Earlier Than We Thought
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Jun 30, 2018
Informational hazards and the cost-effectiveness of open discussion of catastrophic risks
Posted by Alexei Turchin in category: futurism
Any thoughts about the problem of open discussion of the catastrophic risks?
TL;DR: In order to prevent x-risks, our strategic vision should outperform technical capabilities of the potential malevolent agents, which means that strategic discussion should be public and open, but the publication of technical dangerous knowledge should be prevented.
Risks and benefits of the open discussion
Bostrom has created a typology of info-hazards, but any information could also have “x-risk prevention positive impact”, or info-benefits. Obviously, info-benefits must outweigh the info-hazards of the open public discussion of x-risks, or the research of the x-risks is useless. In other words, the “cost-effectiveness” of the open discussion of a risk A should be estimated, and the potential increase in catastrophic probability should be weighed against a possible decrease of the probability of a catastrophe.
Jun 30, 2018
ISS LIVE: Watch as the International Space orbits the Earth at 17,895 mph
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
According to new Stanford research, it may depend on how many natural killer cells you have: https://stan.md/2I2IDZx (Photo by Kelly Sikkema)
…” Because unlike Konopinski-Marvin-Teller, it (the paper) actually focuses on those “necessary conditions”: what would need to be different, if you did want to have a self-propagating reaction?
What would it take to turn the world into one big fusion reaction, wiping it clean of life and turning it into a barren rock? Asking for a friend.
Jun 30, 2018
New form of gold is much golder than normal gold
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Jun 30, 2018
Boeing to unveil mystery plane that will ‘change the future of air power’
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, transportation
B oeing, one of the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturers, is poised to unveil a “robust” new plane that will be “changing the future of air power”, the company claims.
The secret aircraft has a ‘Batmobile’ style, according to a teaser video posted on Twitter of the plane by Phantom Works, Boeing’s advanced design division, which has focussed on several highly classified projects.
