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The End of Times
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| Lagrangian |
Here's my take: There's no such thing as the end of world or times.
| quote: | They are an improbable group of superheroes. But some of Britain's greatest minds have got together to focus their powers on saving humanity from itself.
Led by the Astronomer Royal and Cambridge don Martin Rees, famous thinkers such as physicist Stephen Hawking and former Government chief scientist Robert May have formed a society to draw up a doomsday list of risks that could wipe out mankind.
From crippling cyber-attacks by terrorists using the internet to cause havoc, to the release of engineered diseases and killer computers, they warn the future is far from rosy |
"Far from rosy" sure, why not? But, end of times? Doubt it. Take Hawking's opinions with a grain of salt -- his statements of information loss in blackholes was disputed by Lenny Susskind
| quote: | 'That's why some of us in Cambridge - both natural and social scientists - plan, with colleagues at Oxford and elsewhere, to inaugurate a research programme to compile a more complete register of these existential risks, and to assess how to enhance resilience against the more credible ones.'
He added: 'The response we've had to our proposal has been remarkably wide and remarkably positive.
'The project is still embryonic but we are seeking funds via various sources and have strengthened our international advisory network.'
The other two co-founders of CSER are Jann Tallinn, one of the people behind internet phone service Skype, and Cambridge philosopher Professor Huw Price.
The group's manifesto is clear: 'Many scientists are concerned that developments in human technology may soon pose new, extinction-level risks to our species as a whole.
'Our goal is to steer a small fraction of Cambridge's great intellectual resources and of the reputation built on its past and present scientific pre-eminence, to the task of ensuring that our own species has a long-term future.
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Social scientists? Is that what Oprah is?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2418990/Science-superheroes-famous-thinkers-form-doomsday-society-save-humanity-asteroids-pandemics--itself.html |
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| Desiderata |
| You have some knowledge on a few things but for the most part you are stuck in the mainstream pseudo, dude. |
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| WittyHandle |
| I'd settle for the end of Lagrangian's threads. |
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| meriter |
| i appreciate what you're doing but you're kinda yelling into the wind here dude, try a different forum |
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| Desiderata |
| Exactly if you are already being flamed for the content of your Posts and Threads then why go out of your way to make even more Posts and Threads with the same content. Why would you call yourself the George Washington of TA, that's just narcissism at it's finest. |
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| FuzzQi |
*waiting for the meltdown*
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
I'd settle for the end of Lagrangian's threads. |
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| DJ NyX |
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my reaction when somebody posts references to the daily mail |
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| EarnYourKeep |
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| Desiderata |
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| itsamemario |
lol what a poser.
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