Thanks to our great guests from our live Doomsday program at the Computer History Museum, as part of the Bay Area Science Festival.
Some of our guests have shared documents and links related to the topics they discussed onstage:
Ken Caldeira gave us:
- His article in the September 2012 issue of Scientific American: The Great Climate Experiment
- Other resources can be found on Ken’s website
Andrew Fraknoi provided a Resource Guide for Doomsday 2012:
- Journal article in “Astronomy Education Review”
(click on the “Download PDF” link under the author’s name for the easiest way to see the entire article) - David Morrison’s Doomsday 2012 Fact Sheet
- Debunking Astronomical Pseudoscience in General
Kirsten Gilardi provided links to:
- Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project & UC Davis Wildlife Health Center
- UC Davis Veterinary Medicine PREDICT
Luke Muehlhauser’s work includes:
- Muehlhauser & Salamon, Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import
- Muehlhauser & Helm, The Singularity and Machine Ethics
- Muehlhauser, Facing the Singularity
- Muehlhauser, Singularity FAQ
- Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
(popular overview of human irrationality) - Stanovich, Rationality and the Reflective Mind
(best academic synthesis yet on human irrationality) - Center for Applied Rationality (Bay Area nonprofit that teaches workshops on Kahneman/Stanovich-style rationality and self-skepticism)
