{"id":164,"date":"2006-08-10T20:31:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T00:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2006-08-10T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T00:31:13","slug":"the-multiplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"The multiplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need a word for what happens if it all goes wrong. The optimists have got the singularity. I propose that we take back the multiplicity, to suggest both the variety of possible or likely disasters, and the fragmentation of civilisation which will follow them.<\/p>\n\n<p>Meanwhile, as if to balance all the large, probable disasters, there are lots of very small, but <em>very<\/em> improbable ones. For instance, how would you rate the chances of being hit, while riding a jet ski, by an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk\/pfk\/pages\/item.php?news=1028\">airborne sturgeon<\/a>?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need a word for what happens if it all goes wrong. The optimists have got the singularity. I propose that we take back the multiplicity, to suggest both the variety of possible or likely disasters, and the fragmentation of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}