Posted on 08/24/2025 6:48:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In a game of Russian roulette with a standard Colt revolver, the chances of instant death are one-in-six.
Terrifyingly, that’s the same as the odds of humanity being wiped out within 75 years – everyone dead in a cataclysmic and total breakdown of civilisation, according to Oxford University futurologist Toby Ord, an expert on the threat of artificial intelligence.
Does it sound impossibly bleak? His colleague Nick Bostrom is more pessimistic still. He rates the possibility of human extinction by the next century as one in four.
Pulitzer prize-winning writer Jared Diamond is even less hopeful, predicting our species’ chances of survival beyond 2050 – just 25 years away – are no better than evens, or 50/50.
Not so long ago, only oddballs in sandwich boards and evangelical cult leaders seriously believed ‘the end of the world is nigh’. The phrase itself was a comic cliche, so gloomy it was funny.
But the voices now warning of our impending extinction come from highly respected scientists, not kooky doom-sayers. They point to multiple existential threats faced by the human race: not only nuclear weapons, but rampant climate change, artificially engineered viruses and even malevolent AI capable of manufacturing its own super-weapons.
(Excerpt) Read more at climatedepot.com ...
Just be in the business of selling books and work clothes/boots. Play C/W or classical music. Like Colt 45, it works every time.
And yet, we just keep on keeping on. I don’t know how, but there must be money in it for these doomsayers. Then again if we’re going to be extinct in 25 years, what good will your money do you? Better buy ammo, whiskey, food, and cigarettes.
Oxford scientist is an absolute retard. That’s being nice. He’s going to have his head chopped off by Hadji, his wife and daughters raped and made into wives for Moohamhead; long before anything as stupid as what he is screeching about even slightly begins to happen. Which it won’t.
Yes, I thought the division was Oxford for the arts and humanities, Cambridge for the sciences (it was the home of Watson and Crick for instance).
I wonder who funded that?! Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates?!
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Ahhh yes, same old crap... It’s always an even year in blocks of decades away, always divisible by 5...by some elitist nobody...
When banks stop issuing 30 year mortgages on Florida properties, then you’ll have my attention. Until then, we must suffer this crap along with last week’s headline about “Las Vegas climate is changing!” yeah. The desert is more “deserty”.
I’m backing off on the 30 year roof shingles
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on X-ray crystallography.
Andrew Wiles - Received the Abel Prize in 2016 for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, recognized for his contributions to mathematics related to physics.
Peter J. Ratcliffe - Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2019 for discoveries on how cells sense oxygen.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
Richard J. Roberts - Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for the discovery of split genes.
Sir John Gurdon - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012 for his work on nuclear reprogramming.
interestingly, some names shared on both Oxford , Cambridge on these AI generated lists9 previous post was Oxford)
To highlight Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine/Physiology from Cambridge University, consider the following notable laureates:
James Watson - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA.
Francis Crick - Co-recipient with Watson in 1962 for the same discovery.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on X-ray crystallography.
Sir John Gurdon - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012 for his work on nuclear reprogramming.
Michael Rosbash - Shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017 for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms.
Sir Roger Penrose - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 for his work on black holes and general relativity.
“I’m backing off on the 30 year roof shingles”
Smart.
Unless they specifically cover planet destroying events in the guarantee .
True Cambridge, including Isaac Newton >>>Oxford , but Oxford not a piddly place either.
These experts said it since the 1950s accord to my dad...
Mark!!!
Project much losers?
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