Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk Eliezer Yudkowsky (yudkowsky@singinst.org) Forthcoming in Global Catastrophic Risks‚ eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic Draft of August 31‚ 2006 Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Palo Alto‚ CA Introduction By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. Of course this problem is not limited to the field of AI. Jacques Monod wrote: "A curious
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Mental Illness: Treatment in the Middle Ages Alyssa Berck Block 4 English 12 Berck 1 Alyssa Berck Mrs. Atkins English 12 2 November 2009 Mental Illness: Treatment in the Middle Ages Throughout time‚ the causes‚ effects‚ and treatment of mental illnesses has been debated and treated in numerous‚ sometimes odd‚ ways‚ but no treatments varied as widely as those in the Middle Ages. During The Middle Ages the lack of the technologies‚ sanitary procedures‚ and knowledge
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WORKING PAPER Auditor Independence: An Examination Independence Risk Factors and Mitigating Factors on Auditor Judgment Barbara M. Vinciguerra Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies Auditor Independence: An Examination Independence Risk Factors and Mitigating Factors on Auditor Judgment Abstract Professional standards require auditors to be independent in the performance of attestation services. Critics of the accounting profession have expressed
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Radio-controlled car Radio-controlled (or R/C) cars are usually categorized as either "toy" or "hobby" grade. Remote control vehicles are usually of one of two types: control of a vehicle by radio transmission or by a wire connecting between the transmitter and car. This article focuses on the radio-controlled vehicle category‚ both toy and hobby grades.Cars are powered by various sources. Electric cars are powered by small but powerful electric motors and rechargeable nickel-cadmium‚ nickel metal
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Some Key Terms and Concepts in Anthropology By Lewis K. Thomas 1. Culture. A learned system of beliefs‚ feelings‚ behaviors‚ and rules for living acquired and shared by a group of people. A person’s culture powerfully influences her/his attitudes‚ perceptions‚ notions of what is ‘reasonable’ or ‘unreasonable‚’ attractive or disgusting‚ correct or incorrect behavior‚ etc. a. Enculturation. The process of ‘learning’ or ‘acquiring’ a cultural system; the process of cultural transmission to infants
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Global Warming: Is It A Serious Issue? A little girl is playing outside in a T-shirt and shorts. A slight red glow is starting to appear on her cheeks. As people are reading this statement‚ they are picturing a child during spring. In reality‚ it is only November 19th. The world’s temperatures are increasing yearly due to global warming. We need to take immediate action to slow this cause. Global warming is becoming a major issue in our environment in the last couple of years. Global warming
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Chronic illness is a term applied to a broad range of diseases that is long lasting in its effects and that vary greatly both in their essential characteristics and the ways in which they affect a family system and its adaptive functioning. Every family is a balanced system and after learning of a member’s chronic illness‚ a family will experience some loss of equilibrium. The illness can cause emotional distress throughout‚ impair the ability to properly support the member and particularly if each
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“Sorry for the loss” Bullying is a serious issue‚ and it might have severe psychological consequences for the victims. Victims might ‘snap’ at the maximum point of tolerance and do something that they will later regret‚ such as murdering their bullies. The short story “Sorry for the loss” by Bridget Keehan deals with the psychological consequences of bullying and the consequences of victims snapping. The main character of the short story is Evie who is a catholic prison chaplain. Even though she
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Drop out risk factors in high school students Tyrone Galimore Parent‚ Child‚ and School Psychology 133A-AMEA Professor Melissa Harwin Tyrone Galimore Parent‚ Child‚ and School PSY 133A-MEA Professor Melissa Harwin Fall semester 2012 10/11/2011 Introduction The purpose of this Life Arts Project (L.A.P.)was to review the benefits of family involvement for children. For the purpose of this L.A.P. I am going to summarize some of the expectations that families
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What are some examples of imperialism today? How is it different or similar from the past? Explain Today imperialism has ethnic conflicts intensifying and it’s crazy how this world is getting. Not everybody is realizing what is happening though but the little problems from fifty years have increased almost rapidly. No matter what state a person visit they will have imperialism happening because the creation of unequal economic‚ cultural‚ and territorial relationships between states. Imperialism
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