Reality can be (almost) funnier than a Pynchon novel

[Mark Kohut]

Please, I too want it instead of not having it and it may be VERY HELPFUL in saving our world, who knows?. But, when I saw it,
could not help--can you?--think of a Candlebrow U. project.....what a title, eh? ...."Existential Risk".........what are the other kinds?
Theoretical?. 
 
 
"Concerned that developments in human technology may soon pose new, extinction-level risks to our species as a whole, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Cambridge University philosopher Huw Price, and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn have formed The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk.
“These dangers have been suggested from progress in AI, from developments in biotechnology and artificial life, from nanotechnology, and from possible extreme effects of anthropogenic climate change,” the founders state. “The seriousness of these risks is difficult to assess, but that in itself seems a cause for concern, given how much is at stake."
 
And given the mysterious event in the future the Trespassers seem to be fleeing from, Maybe Against the Day inspired this? (joke,joke)
 
Philosopher Huw Price holds the Bertrand "Mad Dog" Russell Chair of Philosophy. 
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