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A Fate Worse Than Warming? Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Global Catastrophic Risk

Frontiers in Climate, 2021
Injecting particles into atmosphere to reflect sunlight, stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), represents a potential technological solution to the threat of climate change. But could the cure be worse than the disease?
Aaron Tang, Luke Kemp
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Existential Risks

Policy Quarterly, 2018
Human civilisation faces a range of existential risks, including nuclear war, runaway climate change and superintelligent artificial intelligence run amok. As we show here with calculations for the New Zealand setting, large numbers of currently living and, especially, future people are potentially threatened by existential risks.
Matt Boyd, Nick Wilson
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Between freedom and despair: Existential challenges and contributions to person-centered and experiential therapy [PDF]

, 2003
This article explores a range of contributions that existential thinking may be able to make to the theory and practice of person-centred and experiential therapy.
Cooper, Mick; id_orcid, Cooper, Mick
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AI, Mortality and Existential Risk

The 2024 Conference on Artificial Life
Inman Harvey
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The Potential Role of Iceland in Northern Europe’s Protein Self-Sufficiency: Feasibility Study of Large-Scale Production of Spirulina in a Novel Energy-Food System

Foods, 2022
Europe is dependent on protein-rich crop imports to meet domestic food demand. This has moved the topic of sustainable protein self-sufficiency up the policy agenda.
Asaf Tzachor, Catherine E. Richards, Asger Smidt-Jensen, Arnar Þór Skúlason, Alfons Ramel, Margrét Geirsdóttir   +5 more
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Two types of AI existential risk: decisive and accumulative [PDF]

Philosophical Studies
The conventional discourse on existential risks (x-risks) from AI typically focuses on abrupt, dire events caused by advanced AI systems, particularly those that might achieve or surpass human-level intelligence.
Atoosa Kasirzadeh
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The Techno-Humanitarian Balance and Modernity [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2020
The authors studied the problem of techno-humanitarian balance. A difference was found in approaches to the study of technological progress and its impact on the development of society. The ideas of transhumanism, existential risk, etc. suggested by Nick
Iryna Bogachevska, Kateryna Alieksieieva
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The need for a new narrative in an era of systemic existential threats [PDF]

, 2022
This contributing paper aims to assess how risk, as generally used and developed over several centuries, may not appropriate for the complex systemic and cascading threats now being faced.
UNDRR
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High Risk, Low Reward: A Challenge to the Astronomical Value of Existential Risk Mitigation

Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2023
Many philosophers defend two claims: the astronomical value thesis that it is astronomically important to mitigate existential risks to humanity, and existential risk pessimism, the claim that humanity faces high levels of existential risk. It is natural
D. Thorstad
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An agent-based model clarifies the importance of functional and developmental integration in shaping brain evolution

BMC Biology, 2021
Background Vertebrate brain structure is characterised not only by relative consistency in scaling between components, but also by many examples of divergence from these general trends.. Alternative hypotheses explain these patterns by emphasising either
Shahar Avin, Adrian Currie, Stephen H. Montgomery   +2 more
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