Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008 Podcast
1) Biotechnology and Biosecurity
Lecture on Biotechnology; its applications, its implications, risks and the challenges this new technology brings.
2) Introduction to the Global Catastrophes Risk Conference 2008
Nick Bostrom provides an introduction to the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference and briefly addressing some of the key themes running through it.
3) Probing the Improbable
In this lecture, Toby Ord discusses the philosophical questions surrounding the risk of a global catastophe as well as the implications of a larger Hadron Collider.
4) Expected and unexpected in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature
How does knowledge of the "known" allow scientists to anticipate consequences of the "unknown"? Possible outcomes of new high-energy experiments will be used to address this topic, covering both scien...Show More
Expected and unexpected in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature
54:29 | Dec 8th, 2008
5) Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction
This lecture examines how, for many types of disasters, severity seems to follow a power law distribution, and how the level of resistance to such disruptions can affect the future of humanity.
6) Into the Dark: The Long Term Future of our Dying Universe
This talk outlines astrophysical issues related to the long term fate of the cosmos. It considers the evolution of planets, stars, stellar populations, galaxies, and the universe itself over time scal...Show More
7) Avoiding Millennialist Cognitive Biases
This lecture outlines a typology of the pancultural millennial phenomena, describes characteristic cognitive biases and suggests how contemporary forms of secular techno-utopian and techno-apocalyptic...Show More
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