Bruce Klein – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 17 Apr 2017 05:27:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Poll: Top 10 Existential Risks https://lifeboat.com/blog/2008/01/poll-top-10-existential-risks https://lifeboat.com/blog/2008/01/poll-top-10-existential-risks#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:08:36 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=116 How would you allocate a hypothetical $100 million budget for a Lifeboat Foundation study of the top 10 existential risks… risks that are both global and terminal?

$?? Biological viruses…
$?? Environmental global warming…
$?? Extraterrestrial invasion…
 $?? Governments abusive power…
$?? Nanotechnology gray goo…
$?? Nuclear holocaust…
$?? Simulation Shut Down if we live in one…
$?? Space Threats asteroids…
$?? Superintelligent AI un-friendly…
$?? Other
$100 million total

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Results after 80 votes updated: Jan 13, 2008 11 AM EST

$23.9 Biological viruses…
 $17.9 Space Threats asteroids…
$13.9 Governments abusive power…
 $10.2 Nuclear holocaust…
$8.8 Nanotechnology gray goo…
 $8.6 Other
$8.5 Superintelligent AI un-friendly…
$7.2 Environmental global warming…
$0.7 Extraterrestrial invasion…
$0.4 Simulation Shut Down if we live in one…
$100 million total

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