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Joywin's Script
Joywin's Script
Joywin's Script
Technology:
“Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-Born philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his
work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics,
superintelligent risks and reversal test.”
“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.”
Environmental threats seem to have displaced nuclear holocaust as the chief specter
haunting the public imagination. Current-day pessimists about the future often focus on
the environmental problems facing the growing world population, worrying that our
wasteful and polluting ways are unsustainable and potentially ruinous to human
civilization.