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Existential Risk | Centre for Applied Eschatology (https://www.appliedeschatology.com/)
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we’re working for no tomorrow, today

ok this is funny

Q: Why do you want to end the world?

A: CAE is devoted to practical, pragmatic solutions. We’re interested in the how, not the why.

A bold strategy

Ha that FAQ answer was the same thing I was going to quote

I am slightly concerned that their donation page actually seems functional, or at least that they’re willing to take your personal data. Does anybody interested in immanentizing the eschaton want to report if it actually works?

Also, who else thinks this is viral marketing for Portal 3 or something?

I sent 'em a dollar and it went through.
Well, thank you for doing your small part to make William F. Buckley spin in his grave.

They’re research page is a goldmine:

Supervolcano

Volcanos were responsible for at least two of the five great extinctions in Earth’s history. The question isn’t if it will happen again, but when. How might we harness this awesome power and accelerate the process? 

Pandemic

The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more than 50 million people. In our increasingly crowded and connected world, supported by factory farming and teeming with new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the potential for a new pandemic has never been greater. 

> Supervolcano You now have L Ron Hubbard's undivided attention

So the people in the about section are real people and I’m trying to figure out if they’re the people who created it or if the site just spoofed em. But in the process of trying to figure out I learned and am happy to report that Tanya Harrison has raised money to cover all of her medical debt!

Edit: One of the people listed on that page retweeted a tweet from the website’s twitter page so I’m pretty sure they’re all involved in it as a satirical sort of thing

Wait, why would this be satirical? Do we...*not* wanna end the world? In that case, shouldn't it be added to the sidebar?
I dont want to end there world, I keep all my stuff there.

Not even listing vacuum collapse, amateurs, might even be scammers.

E: From their twitter page. Also good one

> Not even listing vacuum collapse, amateurs In unrelated, I had a showerthought about that the other day... MWI with unstable vacuum (in an unstable equilibrium). Not even metastable, just altogether unstable. Seems like you can maybe get objective collapse this way (of course the trouble as always would be getting the right probabilities) plus some additional laws of physics as a survivor bias. edit: put another way, a belief in many worlds should be very easily overturned by a relation that is more compactly expressed in some form of "if it isn't equal, you're so screwed you don't get to see it". Superfluous things in physics tend to find some elegant use eventually.

I googled this and found the EA sub talking about it

As a negative-ish utilitarian, it actually aligns with my beliefs and values quite well.

Oh no

This feels like something from the SCP Foundation.

wow they have a blog post about covid-19 dated to July of 2019. 🤔

going by the URL, it was originally about some trip to the amazon or something? oh yep, updated October of 2020. weird.