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The Ecological Challenge of Artificial Superintelligence
The Ecological Challenge of Artificial Superintelligence
Does the hypothetical realization of artificial superintelligence pose unique challenges to systems ecology and environmental…
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Full Automation and Feminism in Futures Studies
Full Automation and Feminism in Futures Studies
What does feminist critique have to offer futures studies, and a vision of Utopia enabled by full automation?
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Dec 19, 2019
Problems of Assessing the Risk of Contact by Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Problems of Assessing the Risk of Contact by Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Fermi paradox refers to the apparent contradiction between the absence of evidence for extraterrestrial life and intelligence, and the…
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Dec 9, 2019
Galactic Hegemony and the Zoo Hypothesis
Galactic Hegemony and the Zoo Hypothesis
A common trope among science fiction works that address the question of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is the Zoo…
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Dec 2, 2019
A Sustainability Solution to the Fermi Paradox
A Sustainability Solution to the Fermi Paradox
In 1950, at a lunch outside Los Alamos with colleagues Emil Konopinsky, Edward Teller, and Herbert York, nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi…
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Dec 2, 2019
“Classifying Global Catastrophic Risks”
“Classifying Global Catastrophic Risks”
Global catastrophic risks, otherwise known as existential risks, are those associated with some event which either causes human extinction…
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Dec 2, 2019
Games and Futures Studies Methodology
Games and Futures Studies Methodology
It is a critique of futures studies that its methods are borrowed and adapted from exterior social sciences, including economics…
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Nov 25, 2019
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