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Day 15:

(2/n)

...misogyny, grandmasters like () and have long been writing about this theme.

Maybe you'll like this excellent mini-series of his classic, too:

*Curious Matter Anthology: Philip K. Dick's   - Part 1 *

It still gives me the goosebumps.

Why does..

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Day 15:

(3/n)

...In the summer of 2022, a big international survey was conducted:

"We contacted approximately 4271 researchers who published at the conferences NeurIPS or ICML in 2021. "

It found, among other things:

"The median respondent believes the probability that the 👉long-run effect of advanced ...

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Day 15:

(4/n)

...on humanity will be “extremely bad (e.g., human extinction)👈” is 5%. This is the same as it was in 2016 (though et al 2022 found 2% in a similar but non-identical question).
Many respondents were substantially more concerned: 👉48% of respondents gave at least 10% chance of an extremely bad outcome." 1)

Now,..

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Day 15:

(5/n)

...remember that the survey was conducted months *before* market leader * gave internet access to its .

I'm quite positive that those numbers will have risen by quite a bit were they to conduct the same research again now.

Oh, and I'd like to point out that this ...

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Day 15:

(6/6)

...is a dramatized version, like the outstanding 1938 radio drama, by , based on the classic by , which led to a mass panic of people, because the realization was so authentic.*

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The War of the Worldshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)

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Likewise.

Apart from , I realized that I'm far to ignorant about .
Only by understanding other cultures may we hope that, one day, we will overcome our differences.

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