Best collection of global risk analysis yet. Generally cogent detailed arguments on 21 separate risk types. For anyone concerned about the future, this volume is a must.

Wish I could put 2 and a half stars. This is a strange one as it is a series of articles about global catastrophe written in a very scholarly manner. There is no apocalypse porn to look at here folks, please move on.Various articles all come to the same conclusion that we are not really in danger of being wiped out. We (humanity that is) could go backwards or even have a catastrophe or two but we will not become extinct as long as there are at least 100 of us in bonkable condition and not to dis [...]

The exact opposite of light reading.JDN 2456497 EDT 08:55.A review of Global Catastrophic Risks by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic Light reading generally requires three things: Short, easy to read, and on a light-hearted subject. This book is none of those things: it consists of over 500 pages of scientific essays on the end of the world. Setting the tone is the first chapter by astrophysicist Fred Adams about the inevitable death and decay of the universe. The basic message is that in 100 [...]

(This seems unlikely to be the book to answer my questions, but perhaps I'll give it a look-see just in case.)

I was hoping for more discussion of correlated risks and the trade-offs faced by public policy when dealing with multi-dimensional, existential risks. The editors lay out exactly why this attention to multi-dimensionality is important: [T]here are also pragmatic reasons for addressing global catastrophic risks as a single field. Attention is scarce. Mitigation is costly. To decide how to allocate effort and resources, we must make comparative judgements. If we treat risks singly, and never as pa [...]

Alcuni articoli sono interessanti, altri molto interessanti e altri ancora per nulla.Vale ogni centesimo speso soltanto per le bibliografie.Ottimo per consultazione e ricerche.

Highlights for me were the chapters on social collapse, nuclear terrorism, and the totalitarian threat.Chapters can be read independently of each other.

A lot more academic than I was expecting. Though in retrospect I don't really knw what I was expecting. Several of the essays were fascinating, and some were not. definitely recommended if the subject matter interests you.

The main problem with the book is simply that the contributions are of very unequal quality. Some are dry technical compilations of facts (or speculations) in a field, and completely inaccessible to a non-specialist. Others take a broader view, and ask deep questions. I particularly liked the chapters on artificial intelligence and totalitarianism. I had wished these had been longer.

There is a lot to like here, and probably should be on the shelf of everyone who works on the risk governance of large-scale risks. However, the biggest contribution of this book is that its gap reveals where to go next in integrated risk governance: actual integration of methodology and domain-specific concerns in a common framework.This book takes the same risk as "Unmaking the West: 'What-If?' Scenarios That Rewrite World History", namely picking a very broad subject, inviting as many people [...]

A exaustive examen of all class of global risks ,to the humankind and the nature caused by the own humans or by the nature forces;the list is well analiced and exaustive:economical, tecnological ,ambiental ,nuclear war ,by diseases ,impact with asteroides or comets,black holes supernovae,solar flares,artificial inteligence,nanotecnology,biotecnology ,nuclear terrorism ,totalitarism ,social colapse,and so on risks;it examines short and long term risks