Halloween special: a scary futures tier list that is spooky in theme & sobering in content. This tier list isn't scientific, it isn't the final say - its a bit of a gimmick, and a fun intuition pump.
Anders Sandberg is a neuroscientist and futurist well known for sizing up the biggest canvases we’ve got. Formerly a senior research fellow at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, he’s worked on AI, cognitive enhancement, existential risk, and those deliciously unsettling Fermi-paradox puzzles. His forthcoming books include “Law, Liberty and Leviathan: human autonomy in the era of existential risk and Artificial Intelligence”, and a big one - “Grand Futures—a tour of what’s physically possible for advanced civilisations”. He authored classic papers like "Daily Life Among the Jupiter Brains" (which came out in 1999), and co-authored “Eternity in Six Hours” on intergalactic expansion, and “Dissolving the Fermi Paradox.”
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Halloween special: a scary futures tier list that is spooky in theme & sobering in content. This tier list isn't scientific, it isn't the final say - its a bit of a gimmick, and a fun intuition pump.
Anders Sandberg is a neuroscientist and futurist well known for sizing up the biggest canvases we’ve got. Formerly a senior research fellow at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, he’s worked on AI, cognitive enhancement, existential risk, and those deliciously unsettling Fermi-paradox puzzles. His forthcoming books include “Law, Liberty and Leviathan: human autonomy in the era of existential risk and Artificial Intelligence”, and a big one - “Grand Futures—a tour of what’s physically possible for advanced civilisations”. He authored classic papers like "Daily Life Among the Jupiter Brains" (which came out in 1999), and co-authored “Eternity in Six Hours” on intergalactic expansion, and “Dissolving the Fermi Paradox.”
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