This manuscript examines prominent English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking’s doomsday AI (Artificial Intelligence) predictions, in which he claims that once becomes sophisticated enough to outsmart humans the future, it may pose existential threats ordinary humans. He felt people might feel outmoded, putting their entire survival jeopardy. forecast of is compared another widely accepted b...

for the threat of pandemic infl uenza. He neglects the fact that most of the cases of human infection with infl uenza A (H5N1) have come from family farms in Asia, rather than the large commercial ventures. The science relating to the current subtype H6N1 is changing so rapidly that any book is out-of-date by the time it is published. The book contains 90 pages of references, mostly from the po...

Despite challenges and doomsday predictions, the Nordic welfare states with high taxes and public expenditure are still with us. This paper describes strategic choices for policy makers of the welfare state and uses the case of Sweden to argue that the high tax welfare state has survived several challenges through a process of incremental change, where the welfare state is modified in order to ...

In large cities, pedestrians account for 40% to 50% of traffic fatalities. Previous studies based on relatively small samples have concluded that Pedestrian Countdown Timers can reduce pedestrian crashes at signalized intersections. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of Pedestrian Countdown Timer (PCT) on crashes in a large city with a long baseline and relatively patter...

Current theories of conflict fail to develop an adequate model of the causation of violence. Greed for power is often invoked, but how greed itself develops is seldom considered. Particularly absent are models explaining the vast energy that propels violence and destruction. This essay will consider bases of greed and violence unleashed by alienation and repression of emotions. Since it appears...

In this article I defend the Doomsday Argument, the Halfer Position in Sleeping Beauty, the Fine-Tuning Argument, and the applicability of Bayesian confirmation theory to the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. I will argue that all four problems have the same structure, and I give a unified treatment that uses simple models of the cases and no controversial assumptions about confirmat...