#pandemics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pandemics, aggregated by home.social.
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Report: Roughly Half the World’s Governments Underestimated Covid Deaths by the Millions
Aside from maybe a few blinkered members from some of society’s more fortunate demographics (e.g., white-collar remote workers,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #COVID-19 #disinformation #government #Pandemics
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Report: Roughly Half the World’s Governments Underestimated Covid Deaths by the Millions
Aside from maybe a few blinkered members from some of society’s more fortunate demographics (e.g., white-collar remote workers,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #COVID-19 #disinformation #government #Pandemics
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Max Brooks reflects on 20 years of ‘World War Z’ https://www.byteseu.com/2353698/ #Books #culture #Features #News #Pandemics #Science
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For #longtermists, there is nothing worse than succumbing to an #existential #risk: That would be the ultimate tragedy, since it would keep us from plundering our "#cosmic #endowment" — resources like stars, planets, asteroids and energy — which many longtermists see as integral to fulfilling our "longterm potential" in the universe.
What sorts of catastrophes would instantiate an existential risk? The obvious ones are nuclear #war, global #pandemics and runaway #climate #change. But Bostrom also takes seriously the idea that we already live in a giant computer #simulation that could get shut down at any moment (yet another idea that #Musk seems to have gotten from Bostrom).
Bostrom further lists "#dysgenic #pressures" as an existential risk, whereby less "intellectually talented" people (those with "#lower #IQs") outbreed people with #superior #intellects
