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What\n do you lay awake at night worrying about? Are your worries different than
\n those far smarter than you? Perhaps.<\/p>\n
What
\n do you lay awake at night worrying about? Are your worries different than
\n those far smarter than you? Perhaps.<\/p>\n
John Brockman of Edge magazine asked what the world’s most intelligent One hundred and fifty distinct worries, in fact. Thankfully, VICE’s Motherboard 1. The proliferation of Chinese eugenics. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Geoffrey Miller, 2. Black swan events, and the fact that we continue to rely on models 3. That we will be unable to defeat viruses by learning to push them 4. That pseudoscience will gain ground. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Helena Cronin, author, 5. That the age of accelerating technology will overwhelm us with opportunities 6. Genuine apocalyptic events. The growing number of low-probability 7. The decline in science coverage in newspapers. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Barbara Strauch, 8. Exploding stars, the eventual collapse of the Sun, and the problems 9. That the internet is ruining writing. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c David Gelernter, Yale 10. That smart people–like those who contribute to Edge–won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t 11. That there will be another supernova-like financial disaster. \u00e2\u20ac\u201cSeth 12. That search engines will become arbiters of truth. –W. Daniel 13. The dearth of desirable mates is something we should worry about, 14. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m worried that our technology is helping to bring 15. That we will continue to uphold taboos on bad words. \u00e2\u20ac\u201cBenhamin Humanity, start worrying! Or, you can just accept it all, like Terry I’ve given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance Read the original post over at Edge: Link<\/a>
\n brainiacs – including Physics Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, technologist
\n Tim O’Reilly, musician Brian Eno, The Black Swan<\/em> author Nassim
\n Nicholas Taleb – about their professional worries and got a lot of responses.<\/p>\n
\n blog has summarized
\n it for us<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n
\n evolutionary psychologist.<\/p>\n
\n that have been proven fraudulent. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Nassem Nicholas Taleb<\/p>\n
\n beyond the error catastrophe threshold. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c William McEwan, molecular
\n biology researcher<\/p>\n
\n philospher<\/p>\n
\n to be worried. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dan Sperber, social and cognitive scientist<\/p>\n
\n events that could lead to the total devastation of human society. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c
\n Martin Rees, former president of the Royal Society<\/p>\n
\n New York Times science editor<\/p>\n
\n with the human id that prevent us from dealing with them. — John Tooby,
\n founder of the field of evolutionary psychology<\/p>\n
\n computer scientist<\/p>\n
\n do politics. \u00e2\u20ac\u201cBrian Eno, musician<\/p>\n
\n Lloyd, professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering at MIT<\/p>\n
\n Hillis, physicist<\/p>\n
\n for “it lies behind much human treachery and brutality.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201cDavid M. Buss, professor of psychology at U of T<\/p>\n
\n the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201cDavid
\n Bodanis, writer, futurist<\/p>\n
\n Bergen, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, UCS<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n Gilliam of Monty Python, who said:<\/p>\n\n
\n of anything life throws at me… and marvel stupidly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n | Summary at Motherboard
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