Global catastrophic risks /

Global catastrophic risks / edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - 554 str. ; 24 cm.

Sadržaj: Long-term astrophysical processes / Fred C. Adams ; Evolution theory and the future of humanity / Christopher Wills ; Millennial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats / James J. Hughes ; Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgement of global risks / Eliezer Yudkowsky ; Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks / Milan M. Ćirković ; Systems-based risk analysis / Yacov Y. Haimes ; Catastrophes and insurance / Peter Taylor ; Public policy toward catastrophe / Richard A. Posner ; Supervolcanism and other geophysical processes of catastrophic import / Michael R. Rampino ; Hazards from comets and asteroids / William Napier ; Influence of supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, and cosmic rays on the terrestrial environment / Arnon Dar ; Climate change and global risk / David Frame and Myles R. Allen ; Plagues and pandemics: past, present, and future / Edwin Dennis Kilbourne ; Artificial Intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global risk / Eliezer Yudkowski ; Big troubles, imagined and real / Frank Wilczek ; Catastrophe, social collapse, and human extinction / Robin Hanson ; The continuing threat of nuclear war / Joseph Cirincione ; Catastrophic nuclear terrorism: a preventable peril / Gary Ackerman and William C. Potter and ; Biotechnology and biosecurity / Ali Nouri and Christopher F. Chyba ; Nanotechnology as global catastrophic risk / Chris Phoenix and Mike Treder ; The totalitarian threat / Bryan Caplan.

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