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utopianism and apocalypticism", "4.5 Contemporary techno-millennialism", "4.5.1 The singularity and techno-millennialism", "4.6 Techno-apocalypticism", "4.7 Symptoms of dysfunctional millennialism in assessing future scenarios", "4.8 Conclusions", "Suggestions for further reading", "References", "5 Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgement of global risks", "5.1 Introduction", "5.2 Availability", "5.3 Hindsight bias", "5.4 Black Swans", "5.6 Confirmation bias", "5.7 Anchoring, adjustment, and contamination", "5.8 The affect heuristic", "5.9 Scope neglect", "5.10 Calibration and overconfidence", "5.11 Bystander apathy", "5.12 A final caution", "5.13 Conclusion", "Suggestions for further reading", "References", "6 Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks", "6.1 Introduction: anthropic reasoning and global risks", "6.2 Past-future asymmetry and risk inferences", "6.2.1 A simplified model", "6.2.2 Anthropic overconfidence bias", "6.2.3 Applicability class of 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gamma-ray bursts", "12.4 Origin of the major mass extinctions", "12.5 The Fermi paradox and mass extinctions", "12.6 Conclusions", "References", "Part III Risks from unintended consequences", "13 Climate change and global risk", "13.1 Introduction", "13.2 Modelling climate change", "13.3 A simple model of climate change", "13.3.1 Solar forcing", "13.3.2 Volcanic forcing", "13.3.3 Anthropogenic forcing", "13.4 Limits to current knowledge", "13.5 Defining dangerous climate change", "13.6 Regional climate risk under anthropogenic change", "13.7 Climate risk and mitigation policy", "13.8 Discussion and conclusions", "Suggestions for further reading", "References", "14 Plagues and pandemics: past, present, and future", "14.1 Introduction", "14.2 The baseline: the chronic and persisting burden of infectious disease", "14.3 The causation of pandemics", "14.4 The nature and source of the parasites", "14.5 Modes of microbial and viral transmission", "14.6 Nature of the disease impact: high morbidity, high mortality, or both", "14.7 Environmental factors", "14.8 Humanbehaviour", "14.9 Infectious diseases as contributors to other natural catastrophes", "14.10 Past Plagues and pandemics and their impact on history", "14.11 Plagues of historical note", "14.11.1 Bubonic plague: the Black Death", "14.11.2 Cholera", "14.11.3 Malaria", "14.11.4 Smallpox", "14.11.5 Tuberculosis", "14.11.6 Syphilis as a paradigm of sexually transmitted infections", "14.11.7 Influenza", "14.12 Contemporary plagues and pandemics", "14.12.1 HIV/AIDS", "14.12.2 Influenza", "14.12.3 HIV and tuberculosis: the double impact of new and ancient threats", "14.13 Plagues and pandemics of the future", "14.13.1 Microbes that threaten without infection: the microbial toxins", "14.13.2 Iatrogenic diseases", "14.13.3 The homogenization of peoples and cultures", "14.13.4 Man-made viruses", "14.14 Discussion and conclusions", "Suggestions for further reading", "References", "15 Artificial Intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global risk", "15.1 Introduction", "15.2 Anthropomorphic bias", "15.3 Predictionand design", "15.4 Underestimating the power of intelligence", "15.5 Capability and motive", "15.5.1 Optimization processes", "15.5.2 Aiming at the target", "15.6 Friendly Artificial Intelligence", "15.7 Technical failure and philosophical failure", "15.7.1 An example of philosophical failure", "15.7.2 An example of technical failure", "15.8 Rates of intelligence increase", "15.9 Hardware", "15.10 Threats and promises", "15.11 Local and majoritarian strategies", "15.12 Interactions of Artificial Intelligence with other technologies", "15.13 Making progress on Friendly Artificial Intelligence", "15.14 Conclusion", "References", "16 Big troubles, imagined and real", "16.1 Why look for trouble?", "16.2 Looking before leaping", "16.2.1 Accelerator disasters", "16.2.2 Runaway technologies", "16.3 Preparing to Prepare", "16.4 Wondering", "Suggestions for further reading", "References", "17 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