[ExI] Cambridge Existential Risks

[Stefano Vaj]

On 29 June 2012 13:00, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this Cambridge taking a hint from Anders?
> Or is it academic competition?
> I see they have Nick Bostrom as one of their advisers.
>
> <http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-cambridge-project-for-existential-risk>
> The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk       June 29, 2012
>
> Concerned that developments in human technology may soon pose new,
> extinction-level risks to our species as a whole, Astronomer Royal
> Martin Rees, Cambridge University philosopher Huw Price, and Skype
> co-founder Jaan Tallinn have formed The Cambridge Project for
> Existential Risk.
>

Rees has forever had a fascination for doom stories (even though not
necessarily in any millenial, neoLuddite sense, several of his scenarios
are not even remotely anthropic). See Our Final
Hour<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Final-Hour-Scientists-Warning/dp/0465068634/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340982282&sr=1-11>.


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Stefano Vaj
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