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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists exists primarily to encourage awareness. The Doomsday Clock is perhaps imperfect, but it keeps the conversation going, someth
by ISL 9y ago
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists exists primarily to encourage awareness.
The Doomsday Clock is perhaps imperfect, but it keeps the conversation going, something essential.
I want to live in a world where instantaneous human-caused planetary disasters cannot happen.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> I want to live in a world where instantaneous human-caused planetary disasters cannot happen. That may very well stay in the past (until the first such disaster) - the whole point of technology is to have ever finer control over ever more powerful things. Two big subsets of that are ever-increasing energy demands (energy = destructive power), and self-replication (aka. biotechnology).