existential risk

collocation in English

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existential
adjective
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/ˌeɡ.zɪˈsten.ʃəl/us
/ˌeɡ.zɪˈsten.ʃəl/
relating to a philosophy (= system of ideas) according to which the world has no meaning and each person is alone and completely responsible for his or her ...
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risk
noun
uk
/rɪsk/us
/rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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Transhumanists do not necessarily rule out specific restrictions on emerging technologies so as to lessen the prospect ofexistentialrisk.
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He strongly promotes the study ofexistentialriskand has given numerous talks on this topic.
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Anexistentialrisk, on the other hand, is one that either destroys humanity entirely or prevents any chance of civilization recovering.
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Therefore, reducingexistentialriskby even a small amount would have a very significant impact on the expected number of people that will exist in the future.
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Bostrom identifies four types ofexistentialrisk.
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Wild cards refer to low-probability and high-impact events, such as existential risks.
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The scope of this article is existential risks.
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Some economists have discussed the importance of global catastrophic risks, though not existential risks.
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Bostrom considers existential risks to be far more significant.
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Those that are at least pan-generational (affecting all future generations) in scope and crushing in intensity are classified as existential risks.
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Existential risks pose unique challenges to prediction, even more than other long-term events, because of observation selection effects.
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He writes and speaks on a wide range of topics, including technoscience, ethics, existential risks, artificial intelligence, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and futurology, from a democratic transhumanist perspective.
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He claims that it is more important to reduce existential risks to increase the probability of eventual colonization than to accelerate technological development so that space colonization could happen sooner.
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These are referred to as existential risks.
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