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Автор: Moynihan, Thomas (Томас Мойнихэн)
Название: Xrisk
Перевод названия: Томас Мойнихэн: Х - риск
ISBN: 9781913029845
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:

Естественные науки: общие вопросы

ISBN-10: 1913029840
Обложка/Формат: Trade Paperback
Страницы: 224
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 15.09.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 193 x 130 x 33
Основная тема: History/Social Science
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction.

From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our species is increasingly concerned with the prospects of its own extinction. With humanitys future on this planet seeming more insecure by the day, in the twenty-first century, existential risk has become the object of a growing field of serious scientific inquiry. But, as Thomas Moynihan shows in X-Risk, this preoccupation is not exclusive to the post-atomic age of global warming and synthetic biology. Our growing concern with human extinction itself has a history.

Tracing this untold story, Moynihan revisits the pioneers who first contemplated the possibility of human extinction and stages the historical drama of this momentous discovery. He shows how, far from being a secular reprise of religious prophecies of apocalypse, existential risk is a thoroughly modern idea, made possible by the burgeoning sciences and philosophical tumult of the Enlightenment era. In recollecting how we first came to care for our extinction, Moynihan reveals how todays attempts to measure and mitigate existential threats are the continuation of a project initiated over two centuries ago, which concerns the very vocation of the human as a rational, responsible, and future-oriented being.

Xrisk, Moynihan, Thomas