The case for strong longtermism – Hilary Greaves and William MacAskill (Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford)

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Amsterdam faces fairly serious problems right now. Transport is clogging up, and economy, travel, comfort all suffer. Existing solutions, such as cars, trams, buses, ponts and metros all have serious drawbacks. Let’s go over these drawbacks one by one. Cars Cars in Amsterdam don’t have much of a future – the inner city especially suffers […]

I don’t want to make outrageous claims but back since the 1980s I was always solidly certain in the conviction that sea levels would be rising procipitously in the latter half of the 21st century. This has been denied for over 30 years, often with a condescending tone. Now it turns out I was totally […]

It is now time.  Maybe overdue a little. The global disparity, the plutocracy, the kleptocracy, the stealing, the corruption, the rampant media lying, the oligarchy – it’s mostly everwhere. It is worse than it has ever been. And it needs to end at once. “They” don’t listen to arguments. There are so many of “them” […]

  Original article   In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they’re making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous   OnOn conference stages and at campaign rallies, tech executives and politicians warn of a looming automation crisis — one where workers are gradually, then all at once, replaced by intelligent […]

Follow the next sequence of statements and judge if any consequtive conclusion is halfway right. This is not a welcome epidemic in most countries. It could not have arrived at a more … interesting… period on human history. The effects of mass shut down, no matter how haphazzardly, is already destabilizing, politically scarring and met […]

2020 vision much?

If we want to travel to another stellar system, i.e. “traverse” light years of space more or less uninterrupted and without a timescale we’d consider reasonable and mangeable there are a series of major hurdles to overcome. We can not make definitive statements about technologies that do not yet exist. For the same of the […]

Is it even possible? Hell yeah it is. Sanders can decide, if he doesn’t make it into the Primary cut, to declare himself an independent “Democratic Socialist” candidate. There is at this time a solid point to be made for him to do so, and I would argue he should. See if he gets through […]