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PHILOSOPHY 2.0: APPLYING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS AND ITERATIVE DEGREES OF SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofia i Nauka, 2022
Methods of improving the state and rate of progress within the domain of philosophy using collective intelligence systems are considered. By applying mASI systems superintelligence, debiasing, and humanity’s current sum of knowledge may be applied to ...
Kyrtin Atreides
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The Ethics of Volcano Geoengineering

open access: yesEarth's Future, 2023
Volcano geoengineering is the practice of altering the state of volcanic systems and/or volcanic eruptions to exploit them or mitigate their risk. Although many in the field insist there is little that can be done to mitigate the hazard, past examples of
Michael Cassidy   +2 more
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Impact of the Tambora volcanic eruption of 1815 on islands and relevance to future sunlight-blocking catastrophes

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Island nations may have potential long-term survival value for humanity in global catastrophes such as sun-blocking catastrophes from nuclear winter and large magnitude volcanic eruptions. One way to explore this issue further is to understand the impact
Nick Wilson   +5 more
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Human Security and Existential Threats: A Governance Framework for Planet, Peace, People & Prosperity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
A key priority for Human Security in the 21st Century is the prevention of existential threats to human civilisation to ensure the well-being of our future generations.
Joanna Nurse
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The UK’s pandemic preparedness and early response to the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesGlobal Public Health
This article focuses on the UK’s pre-COVID 19 pandemic preparedness and its early response to the COVID-19 pandemic (January ‘20 – March ‘20). The aim of this article is to explain the high excess mortality the UK experienced compared to many of its ...
Jochem Rietveld   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Problem with Longtermism

open access: yesEthics in Progress, 2023
Moral circle expansion has been occurring faster than ever before in the last forty years, with moral agency fully extended to all humans regardless of their ethnicity, and regardless of their geographical location, as well as to animals, plants ...
B.V.E. Hyde
doaj   +1 more source

Lessons from COVID-19 for GCR governance: a research agenda [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research
The Lessons from Covid-19 Research Agenda offers a structure to study the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic response from a Global Catastrophic Risk (GCR) perspective.
Lara Mani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage

open access: yesCliodynamics, 2019
We model the Western Roman Empire from 500 BCE to 500 CE, aiming to understand the interdependent dynamics of army size, conquered territory and the production and debasement of coins within the empire.
Sabin Roman, Erika Palmer
doaj   +1 more source

Existential risk from AI and orthogonality: Can we have it both ways?

open access: yesRatio, 2021
The standard argument to the conclusion that artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes an existential risk for the human species uses two premises: (1) AI may reach superintelligent levels, at which point we humans lose control (the ‘singular-ity claim’);
V. Müller, M. Cannon
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Betting on the best case: higher end warming is underrepresented in research

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
We compare the probability of different warming rates to their mentions in IPCC reports through text mining. We find that there is a substantial mismatch between likely warming rates and research coverage.
Florian U Jehn   +4 more
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