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	Existential Risks

wildcat

7-10-2007 10:15 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/613b0ea4-4fc0-43bc-99a5-97a2a2c64def/48BDC81B-E42B-4D11-B27A-01E8F664B836/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html" href="http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nickbostrom.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html"><SPAN>Analyzing 
      Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html"><DIV align="center">Nick Bostrom, PhD</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html"><FONT size="-1">Faculty of Philosophy</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html"><FONT size="-1">, 
      Oxford University</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html">Because of accelerating technological progress, humankind 
        may be rapidly approaching a critical phase in its career. In addition 
        to well-known threats such as nuclear holocaust, the prospects of radically 
        transforming technologies like nanotech systems and machine intelligence 
        present us with unprecedented opportunities and risks.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html">Our future, and 
        whether we will have a future at all, may well be determined by how we 
        deal with these challenges. In the case of radically transforming technologies, 
        a better understanding of the transition dynamics from a human to a “posthuman” 
        society is needed</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html">Of particular importance is to know where the pitfalls 
        are: the ways in which things could go terminally wrong. While we have 
        had long exposure to various personal, local, and endurable global hazards, 
        this paper analyzes a recently emerging category: that of <I>existential 
        risks</I>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/48BDC81B-E42B-4D11-B27A-01E8F664B836/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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