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I was troubled that the retrieval of organs from executed prisoners was at least as morally controversial as the harvesting of stem cells from human embryos.
And in time, my views went from controversial to more or less consensus today.
When this result was first published, it was highly controversial.
And they both involve controversial deaths.
The third hypothesis I have is no longer controversial, but it's important to understand what happened.
We didn't know we could pull it off; it was very controversial.
It was very controversial to say three, four, five years ago.
Why is this remotely controversial?
Now this idea has been very controversial for the last 40 years, but it's about to make a major comeback this year, especially after E.O.
What I'm going to show you next are a couple of controversial ideas.
But, unfortunately, it's become incredibly controversial.
It also monitors the Internet and instructs local media on how to handle any potentially controversial issues, including Tibet, ethnic minorities, Human Rights, religion, democracy movements and terrorism.
And today, after briefly describing what they found, I'm going to tell you about a highly controversial framework for explaining their discovery, namely the possibility that way beyond the Earth, the Milky Way and other distant galaxies, we may find that our universe is not the only universe, but is instead part of a vast complex of universes that we call the multiverse.
And this is the compelling but highly controversial picture of the wider cosmos that cutting-edge observation and theory have now led us to seriously consider.
And this is the most controversial one.
In 1994, Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein coauthored "The Bell Curve," an extremely controversial book which claims that on average, some races are smarter and more likely to succeed than others.
Yet, she encouraged me to see the world and the issues our world faces as complex, controversial and ever-changing.
She explained the many reasons why people of various political views challenge and support affirmative action, stressing that, while she strongly supported it herself, it was important for me to view the issue as a controversial one with a long history, a questionable future and a host of complicating factors.
To prepare myself to engage with controversy in the real world, I joined a group that brought controversial speakers to campus.
For many, it was difficult to see how bringing controversial speakers to campus could be valuable, when they caused harm.
Of course, no one likes being offended, and I certainly don't like hearing controversial speakers argue that feminism has become a war against men or that blacks have lower IQs than whites.
By engaging with controversial and offensive ideas, I believe that we can find common ground, if not with the speakers themselves, then with the audiences they may attract or indoctrinate.
Scientists must be free to explore unconventional or controversial topics.
Let me be very clear, and perhaps controversial, that open government is not about transparent government.
Some of the reasons for this are not really very controversial.
Let's imagine that European citizens actually have the power to vote directly for a European president, or citizen juries chosen by lottery which can deliberate on critical and controversial issues, a European-wide referendum where our citizens, as the lawmakers, vote on future treaties.
Now, if the water level does reach AGI, then further AI progress will be driven mainly not by humans but by AI, which means that there's a possibility that further AI progress could be way faster than the typical human research and development timescale of years, raising the controversial possibility of an intelligence explosion where recursively self-improving AI rapidly leaves human intelligence far behind, creating what's known as superintelligence.
It's a very sad story, but it really illustrates how animals can sometimes show emotion, a very controversial subject among some older biologists.
I'd like to take an example of a controversial use of a market mechanism, a cash incentive, and see what you think about it.
Now these are controversial questions, and so we tend to shrink from them.
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