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So we face an existential threat to the future of our planet.
This is an essentially philosophical idea, and it's one that can't be answered with software alone, but I think requires a moment of species-wide, existential reflection.
Imagine living in a world where we simply recognize that deep, existential fear in one another and love one another boldly because we know that to be human is to live with that fear.
Tragically, the characters are locked in an existential conundrum: they wait in vain for an unknown figure to give them a sense of purpose, but their only sense of purpose comes from the act of waiting, While they wait, they sink into boredom, express religious dread and contemplate suicide.
And transportation, let me tell you, has become an existential issue for us Costa Ricans, because the model we have is not working for us.
In all the stories we've just looked at, salvation came at a moment of existential peril.
But I think this year, I'm hoping it will make people see that we have an existential threat on our hands.
Indeed, in the book "Superintelligence" by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, he picks up on this theme and observes that a superintelligence might not only be dangerous, it could represent an existential threat to all of humanity.
Basically, we face an enormous and growing number of gigantic, existential global challenges: climate change, human rights abuses, mass migration, terrorism, economic chaos, weapons proliferation.
In fact, you can see the existential sadness in their eyes.
I was full of ontological uncertainty and existential angst.
These are the people that you can call on for a loan if you need money suddenly, who will call the doctor if you're not feeling well or who will take you to the hospital, or who will sit with you if you're having an existential crisis, if you're in despair.
I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones, and the rest of the people are pretty strange, (Laughter) especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis, where everyone keeps saying climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all, and yet they just carry on like before.
And climate change represents an existential threat to huge portions of our global family, including some of the poorest people on the face of the planet.
Existential risk is a threat to human survival, or to the long-term potential of our species.
The only thing you should focus on would be to reduce existential risk because even the tiniest decrease in existential risk would just overwhelm any other benefit you could hope to achieve.
This monologue personifies Hamlet’s existential dilemma: being torn between thought and action, unable to choose between life and death.
"Who are we?", but be really forever denied an answer and left in a state of existential tension which we seek to relieve in various ways, and one of these, the most effective for me is laughter.
Now, as I was thinking about the extremes of stress and turbulence that we know we will have to confront, I went and I talked to a number of chief executives whose own businesses had gone through existential crises, when they teetered on the brink of collapse.
The thing we have to heal, us Kenyans, is our lack of self-love, our deep self-hate and our existential identity crisis.
In the paper I don't require an existential catastrophe in order for it to count.
And she would be there, you know, kind of talking with the class, you know, talking about the, you know, the existential futility of life, you know.
And then there are the existential costs.
What I want to do today is spend some time talking about some stuff that's giving me a little bit of existential angst, for lack of a better word, over the past couple of years.
No one asked for answers to the big existential questions or for proof of God or the meaning of life like I had set out to find.
Stories accompany me, keeping my pieces and memories together, like an existential glue.
So in my job, on a daily basis, I get to produce scientific evidence against existential loneliness.
One of the crewmen goes out and has an absurdly idiotic existential conversation with the bomb that made no sense whatsoever.
The film has great actors, a master director, a significant theme--at least a would-be significant theme, undertone of fifties existential world-weariness, aerial scenes that ought to have thrilled both senses and imagination, and characters about which one might deeply care.
Throughout the film we meet supposedly off the wall characters, who are actually very dull, and just don't quite work and who clunk through the horrific screenplay like men in armour suits, driving jeeps through mansion houses and spouting preppy existential obviousness accompanied by the whinings of Coldplay.
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