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Avoiding Millennialist Cognitive Biases

8.12.2008

Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008

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This lecture outlines a typology of the pancultural millennial phenomena, describes characteristic cognitive biases and suggests how contemporary forms of secular techno-utopian and techno-apocalyptic discourse reflect these types of millennial psychology

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Avoiding Millennialist Cognitive Biases
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This lecture outlines a typology of the pancultural millennial phenomena, describes characteristic cognitive biases and suggests how contemporary forms of secular techno-utopian and techno-apocalyptic discourse reflect these types of millennial psychology

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Flere episoder fra "Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008"

Biotechnology and Biosecurity

Introduction to the Global Catastrophes Risk Conference 2008

Probing the Improbable

Expected and unexpected in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature

Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction

Into the Dark: The Long Term Future of our Dying Universe

Avoiding Millennialist Cognitive Biases