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Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
[3] is of course a more complicated moral question: whether you view paralysis and creep toward de-facto authoritarian global government as a bigger problem or someone inventing an evil technology that dooms us all as a bigger problem.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Everyone has to cope with the unknowability of the future. At its most capacious, this is what insurance is about: finding ways to protect ourselves and one another in the face of life’s inevitable perils and uncertainties. Risk can be individualized and commodified or shared and treated as a kind of commons. We can approach risk reactively, coveri
... See moreAstra Taylor • The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)
Moreover, whereas nuclear war and climate change threaten only the physical survival of humankind, disruptive technologies might change the very nature of humanity, and are therefore entangled with humans’ deepest ethical and religious beliefs. While everyone agrees that we should avoid nuclear war and ecological meltdown, people have widely differ
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
What if the global community, facing existential threats, had to decide which aspects of their culture and identity to preserve in a digital vault — and which to leave behind? Who gets to make those decisions, and what does it mean for future generations?