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http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/83235-the-technological-destruction-of-humankind-there-are-some-good-comments-in-this-article-but-i-dont-agree-with-the-idea-that-it-is-all-unintentional-deep-in-the-rabbit-hole-it-is-very-intentional-and-very-predictable
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22002530
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 12:08
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'Dr Bostrom believes we've entered a new kind of technological era with the capacity to threaten our future as never before. These are "threats we have no track record of surviving". Likening it to a dangerous weapon in the hands of a child, he says the advance of technology has overtaken our capacity to control the possible consequences.
Experiments in areas such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology and machine intelligence are hurtling forward into the territory of the unintended and unpredictable. Synthetic biology, where biology meets engineering, promises great medical benefits. But Dr Bostrom is concerned about unforeseen consequences in manipulating the boundaries of human biology.'
Yes, it is certainly like handing a dangerous weapon to a child. But what if the child was also insane and demented and intent on human destruction?'
By Sean CoughlanBBC News education correspondent
Prepare to meet your maker: Will humans become extinct at our own hand?
What are the greatest global threats to humanity? Are we on the verge of our own unexpected extinction?
An international team of scientists, mathematicians and philosophers at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute is investigating the biggest dangers.
And they argue in a research paper, Existential Risk as a Global Priority, that international policymakers must pay serious attention to the reality of species-obliterating risks.
Last year there were more academic papers published on snowboarding than human extinction.
The Swedish-born director of the institute, Nick Bostrom, says the stakes couldn't be higher. If we get it wrong, this could be humanity's final century.
Been there, survived it
So what are the greatest dangers?
First the good news. Pandemics and natural disasters might cause colossal and catastrophic loss of life, but Dr Bostrom believes humanity would be likely to survive.
This is because as a species we've already outlasted many thousands of years of disease, famine, flood, predators, persecution, earthquakes and environmental change. So the odds remain in our favour.
The femur of a dodo: An estimated 99% of all species that have existed have become extinct
And in the time frame of a century, he says the risk of extinction from asteroid impacts and super-volcanic eruptions remains "extremely small".
Even the unprecedented self-inflicted losses in the 20th Century in two world wars, and the Spanish flu epidemic, failed to halt the upward rise in the global human population.
Nuclear war might cause appalling destruction, but enough individuals could survive to allow the species to continue.
If that's the feelgood reassurance out of the way, what should we really be worrying about?
Dr Bostrom believes we've entered a new kind of technological era with the capacity to threaten our future as never before. These are "threats we have no track record of surviving".
Lack of control
Likening it to a dangerous weapon in the hands of a child, he says the advance of technology has overtaken our capacity to control the possible consequences.
Nick Bostrom says there is a plausible threat of extinction in the next century
Experiments in areas such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology and machine intelligence are hurtling forward into the territory of the unintended and unpredictable.
Synthetic biology, where biology meets engineering, promises great medical benefits. But Dr Bostrom is concerned about unforeseen consequences in manipulating the boundaries of human biology.
Nanotechnology, working at a molecular or atomic level, could also become highly destructive if used for warfare, he argues. He has written that future governments will have a major challenge to control and restrict misuses.
There are also fears about how artificial or machine intelligence interact with the external world.
Such computer-driven "intelligence" might be a powerful tool in industry, medicine, agriculture or managing the economy.
But it also can be completely indifferent to any incidental damage.
Unintended consequences
These are not abstract concepts.
Seán O'Heigeartaigh, a geneticist at the institute, draws an analogy with algorithms used in automated stock market trading.
These mathematical strings can have direct and destructive consequences for real economies and real people.
Such computer systems can "manipulate the real world", says Dr O'Heigeartaigh, who studied molecular evolution at Trinity College Dublin.
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In terms of risks from biology, he worries about misguided good intentions, as experiments carry out genetic modifications, dismantling and rebuilding genetic structures.
"It's very unlikely they would want to make something harmful," he says.
But there is always the risk of an unintended sequence of events or something that becomes harmful when transferred into another environment.
"We are developing things that could go wrong in a profound way," he says.
"With any new powerful technology we should think very carefully about what we know - but it might be more important to know what we don't have certainty about."
And he says this isn't a career in scaremongering, he's motivated by the seriousness of his work. "This is one of the most important ways of making a positive difference," he says.
Chain reaction
This eclectic group of researchers talk about computers able to create more and more powerful generations of computers.
There are fears of unintended consequences from biological engineering
It won't be that these machines suddenly develop a line in sarcasm and bad behaviour. But research fellow Daniel Dewey talks about an "intelligence explosion" where the accelerating power of computers becomes less predictable and controllable.
"Artificial intelligence is one of the technologies that puts more and more power into smaller and smaller packages," says Mr Dewey, a US expert in machine super-intelligence who previously worked at Google.
Along with biotechnology and nanotechnology, he says: "You can do things with these technologies, typically chain reaction-type effects, so that starting with very few resources you could undertake projects that could affect everyone in the world."
The Future of Humanity project at Oxford is part of a trend towards focusing research on such big questions. The institute was launched by the Oxford Martin School, which brings together academics from across different fields with the aim of tackling the most "pressing global challenges".
There are also ambitions at Cambridge University to investigate such threats to humanity.
Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal and former president of the Royal Society, is backing plans for a Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
"This is the first century in the world's history when the biggest threat is from humanity," says Lord Rees.
He says that while we worry about more immediate individual risks, such as air travel or food safety, we seem to have much more difficulty recognising bigger dangers.
'Error or terror'
Lord Rees also highlights concerns about synthetic biology.
"With every new technology there are upsides, but there are also risks," he says.
The creation of new organisms for agriculture and medicine could have unforeseen ecological side-effects, he suggests.
Lord Rees raises concerns about the social fragility and lack of resilience in our technology-dependent society.
"It's a question of scale. We're in a more inter-connected world, more travel, news and rumours spread at the speed of light. Therefore the consequences of some error or terror are greater than in the past," he says.
Lord Rees, along with Cambridge philosopher Huw Price and economist Sir Partha Dasgupta and Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, wants the proposed Centre for the Study of Existential Risk to evaluate such threats.
So should we be worried about an impending doomsday?
Geneticist Seán O'Heigeartaigh warns of the uncertain outcomes of biological experiments
This isn't a dystopian fiction. It's not about a cat-stroking villain below a volcano. In fact, the institute in Oxford is in university offices above a gym, where self-preservation is about a treadmill and Lycra.
Dr Bostrom says there is a real gap between the speed of technological advance and our understanding of its implications.
"We're at the level of infants in moral responsibility, but with the technological capability of adults," he says.
As such, the significance of existential risk is "not on people's radars".
But he argues that change is coming whether or not we're ready for it.
"There is a bottleneck in human history. The human condition is going to change. It could be that we end in a catastrophe or that we are transformed by taking much greater control over our biology.
"It's not science fiction, religious doctrine or a late-night conversation in the pub.
"There is no plausible moral case not to take it seriously."
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21 comments:
Are You Just a Believer or Do You Think?
We have to get the whole truth even when it hurts our case. Our job is to be better then the media, so we can't be one sided.
Some of the other points brought up are thought provoking and really make you reconsider the events; however I just wanted to give my two cents about Bauman not being an actor. I would check more than one source before putting it up to support your thoughts.
other evidence is strong but the weak evidence will lose a lot of people that need proof and wont naturally draw a conclusion that it was a inside job from suggestive evidence.
When you have piss poor evidence mixed in with real evidence your entire case will be laughed at. This is the david icke reptilian move where all your real info is discredited by some silly weak info.
YOUNGER BROTHER
lost his "voice" ???
due to a bullet EXITING the back of his neck?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs78CU8F1tE
OLDER BROTHER
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Even though there are times your website goes a bit to far, it is a necessary presence. You are right, and offer new and exciting input about a lot of things that 90% of conspiracy blogs are just copy/pasting (probably from your Atlantean Conspriacy ebook, I know I have seen it before). Also your creator owned works are brilliant, I know I promised to buy spiritual science but I left my job this past week. My boss was an adamant racist, and I would not be a silent accomplace any longer.
But like where in the conspiracy scene will you get everything from Wing Chung to Moon Landing to Pranayama. Your website represents some of the best from politics, history, religion, and philosophy- not just e-fellatio on LewRockwell.com articles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1T-xrYI8Q
Where'd all the Ketchup go?
Atlantean Conspiracy Forum
Thanks for the encouragement Andriulli, glad you like all the diverse subjects I write about! Other people give me flak for not sticking strictly to conspiracies. Peace
Boston Martial Law Gun Confiscation
Remember, the reason for these false-flags is always to take away our freedoms step-by-step, and as Obama's adviser Rahm Emmanuel said, "we never let a good crisis go to waste, and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not have done before."
The chat is a interesting part of the blog. I enjoy the diversity of the blog even though sometimes i give you grief about the more obscure blogs. The recent wing chun one was great, the columbus blog was legendary very very well done.
I think the big evidence with the white square is pretty amazing. In the past few years laws have been passed that anyone deemed a "terrorsist" is excluded certain rights etc, seems likely for a siutation like this so they could set someone up.
Recently i saw a pretty good movie "body of lies" with Leo. In the movie the CIA basically sets a guy up to take the blame on a terrosist attack. With the new laws its scary to think whoever visits the wrong site or works for them can just be setup for a crime at any point without a trial.
Your right i think this was a trial run for martial law and to test how well they could "lockdown" the goyim.
That being said, this incident struck me as suspicious from the beginning. Something wasn't right about it. The information presented in this post confirmed some of my suspicions. What struck me the most were some of the photos presented on the linked website. Those people looked way too calm considering they were lying in pools of blood and body parts and had just been blown up. Also, the government agents fleeing the scene without their backpacks -- come on, that's indisputable evidence that SOMETHING was up that day!
The two things I didn't find that convincing were the Bauman/Vogt identity crisis and the "actors" thing. When the commissioner said "actors," he meant the perpetrators, he attackers, the men who acted. He didn't mean to imply that these men were hired actors.
In any case, there's a lot to this story that we're not being told, and hopefully the whole truth will eventually be made public.
I'm sitting here after smoking some buds, reading "Secret Teachings of All Ages" and it hits me. Slap some links on the side of the page and color in the pictures and it's your blog.
The same way Hall wove through perhaps seemingly unrelated phenomena, history, and religions, the related symbolism proved a very rich and comprehension analyzation.
And your blog carries on that tradition with a complete 2013 make over. I never realized this till now but wow we did have a spiritual ascendence bro. It just occurred to me the secret teachings are now taught by the every day man. No longer ordered iniates, but self innoculated red pills.
But yeah perfect example when you did the science of self defense piece just recently, the minute I saw the triangle it subconsciously arranged it's self into the proper "order" in the pattern of your material. It actually focused my attention. The entire Atlantean conspiracy concept is a lot tighter in your writing then I think a lot of people realize.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A8JDqHhUD4
They were pushing him a bit too fast...
Look at your wing chung write up. Its casual mentioning of the triangle being natures strongest form can roll right into a number of topics from gnostic cosmogony to the pyramids. The casual mentioning of the importance of one's "center" can easily roll into meditation, kundalini, or right back into Gnosticism. Do you see the links as well? Any of the kundalini/serpent mythos can roll into topics of qabballah, then into tarot then into cosmic consciousness.
The reason for this is because you have done magic with this entire website and it's combined efforts. You invoked the platonic archetype of Atlantis and it's magic and bam your entire life and everything you enjoy revolves around those concepts. You can't so much as learn martial arts without finding a branch that focuses (even if inadvertently) on chakras, or triangles.
It runs deep E. Hope I made some sense, when I'm physically exhausted I don't communicate as mercurial as normal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhMTxhWeHM4
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