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1. Science for good and science for bad
1.1. A horrible discovery
1.2. The ethical dilemma of hiding research findings
1.3. Some real-world examples
1.4. The need for informed research policy
1.5. A hopeless task?
1.6. Preview
2. Our planet and its biosphere
2.1. A note to the reader
2.2. Dramatic changes in past climate
2.3. Greenhouse warming
2.4. Milankovitch cycles
2.5. The role of carbon dioxide
2.6. The need for action
2.7. A geoengineering proposal: sulfur in the stratosphere
2.8. Other forms of geoengineering
2.9. No miracle solution
2.10. Searching for solutions further outside the box
3. Engineering better humans?
3.1. Human enhancement
3.2. Human dignity
3.3. The wisdom of repugnance?
3.4. Morphological freedom and the risk for arms races
3.5. Genetic engineering
3.6. Brain-machine interfaces
3.7. Longer lives
3.8. Uploading: philosophical issues
3.9. Uploading: practical issues
3.10. Cryonics
4. Computer revolution
4.1. Cantor
4.2. Turing
4.3. Computer revolution up to now
4.4. Will robots take our jobs?
4.5. Intelligence explosion
4.6. The goals of a superintelligent machine
4.7. Searle's objection
5. Going nano
5.1. 3D printing
5.2. Atomically precise manufacturing
5.3. Nanobots in our bodies
5.4. Grey goo and other dangers
6. What is science?
6.1. Bacon
6.2. Are all ravens black?
6.3. Popper
6.4. A balanced view of Popperian falsificationism
6.5. Is the study of a future intelligence explosion scientific?
6.6. Statistical significance
6.7. Decision makers need probabilities
6.8. Bayesian statistics
6.9. Is consistent Bayesianism possible?
6.10. Science and engineering
7. The fallacious Doomsday Argument
7.1. The Doomsday Argument: basic version
7.2. Why the basic version is wrong
7.3. Frequentist version
7.4. Bayesian version
8. Doomsday nevertheless?
8.1. Classifying and estimating concrete hazards: some difficulties
8.2. Risks from nature
8.3. Risks from human action
8.4. How badly in trouble are we?
9. Space colonization and the Fermi Paradox
9.1. The Fermi Paradox
9.2. The Great Filter
9.3. Colonizing the universe
9.4. Dysonian SETI
9.5. Shouting at the cosmos
10. What do we want and what should we do?
10.1. Facts and values
10.2. Discounting
10.3. Existential risk prevention as global priority?
10.4. I am not advocating Pascal's Wager
10.5. What to do?
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