{"id":116,"date":"2008-01-10T19:08:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T02:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2017-04-16T22:27:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T05:27:50","slug":"poll-top-10-existential-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/poll-top-10-existential-risks","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Top 10 Existential Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"

How would you allocate a hypothetical $100 million budget for a Lifeboat Foundation study of the top 10 existential risks<\/a>\u2026 risks that are both global and terminal?<\/p>\n

$?? Biological<\/a> viruses\u2026<\/font>
$?? Environmental<\/a> global warming\u2026<\/font>
$?? Extraterrestrial<\/a> invasion\u2026
\n<\/font> $?? Governments<\/a> abusive power\u2026<\/font>
$?? Nanotechnology<\/a> gray goo\u2026<\/font>
$?? Nuclear<\/a> holocaust\u2026<\/font>
$?? Simulation Shut Down<\/a> if we live in one\u2026<\/font>
$?? Space Threats<\/a> asteroids\u2026<\/font>
$?? Superintelligent AI<\/a> un-friendly\u2026<\/font>
$?? Other
\n$100 million total<\/font><\/p>\n

To vote, please reply below.<\/p>\n

Results after 80 votes updated: Jan 13, 2008 11 AM EST<\/font><\/p>\n

$23.9 Biological<\/a> viruses\u2026
\n<\/font> $17.9 Space Threats<\/a> asteroids\u2026<\/font>
$13.9 Governments<\/a> abusive power\u2026
\n<\/font> $10.2 Nuclear<\/a> holocaust\u2026<\/font>
$8.8 Nanotechnology<\/a> gray goo\u2026
\n<\/font> $8.6 Other
$8.5 Superintelligent AI<\/a> un-friendly\u2026<\/font>
$7.2 Environmental<\/a> global warming\u2026<\/font>
$0.7 Extraterrestrial<\/a> invasion\u2026<\/font>
$0.4 Simulation Shut Down<\/a> if we live in one\u2026<\/font>
\n$100 million total<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How would you allocate a hypothetical $100 million budget for a Lifeboat Foundation study of the top 10 existential risks\u2026 risks that are both global and terminal? $?? Biological viruses\u2026 $?? Environmental global warming\u2026 $?? Extraterrestrial invasion\u2026 $?? Governments abusive power\u2026 $?? Nanotechnology gray goo\u2026 $?? Nuclear holocaust\u2026 $?? Simulation Shut Down if we live [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52021,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/52021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}