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We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction - Ross Andersen - Technology. Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids and supervolcanoes, but the more-likely scenario, according to Nick Bostrom, a professor of philosophy at Oxford, is that we humans will destroy ourselves. Bostrom, who directs Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, has argued over the course of several papers that human extinction risks are poorly understood and, worse still, severely underestimated by society.
Some of these existential risks are fairly well known, especially the natural ones. But others are obscure or even exotic. Most worrying to Bostrom is the subset of existential risks that arise from human technology, a subset that he expects to grow in number and potency over the next century. Despite his concerns about the risks posed to humans by technological progress, Bostrom is no luddite. Of course there are also existential risks that are not extinction risks. How so?
It is easy for the 'rich' to say to the 'poor' that if you wanted to be 'rich' you should have studied better and worked harder. Well the entire country can't be made up of doctors, lawyers, actors, pro athletes, or CEOs. : politics. Jdpqq. 50 Things You Need To Give Up Today. When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you. So starting today… Give up trying to be perfect. – The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists, it rewards people who get things done. Read Getting Things Done.Give up comparing yourself to others. – The only person you are competing against is yourself.Give up dwelling on the past or worrying too much about the future. – Right now is the only moment guaranteed to you.
Right now is life. Don’t miss it.Give up complaining. – Do something about it.Give up holding grudges. – Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.Give up waiting. – What we don’t start today won’t be finished by tomorrow. Knowledge and intelligence are both useless without action.Give up lying. – In the long-run the truth always reveals itself. And remember, mistakes make us human, failures help us grow, hope keeps us going and love is the reason we’re alive. Photo by: Ai-lueh Chen Related July 27, 2012 In "Aspirations" June 4, 2012.
Robert Gibbs attacks the fringe losers of the left - Glenn Greenwald. But Robert Gibbs — in one of the most petulant, self-pitying outbursts seen from a top political official in recent memory, half derived from a paranoid Richard Nixon rant and the other half from a Sean Hannity/Sarah Palin caricature of The Far Left — is here to tell you that the real reason you’re dissatisfied with the President is because you’re a fringe, ideological, Leftist extremist ingrate who needs drug counseling: The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity. During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough. “I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush.
Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.” UPDATE II: Robert Gibbs: I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Anthony Romero:
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