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A philosophical quest for our biggest problems Nick Bostrom 2007-04-05 /talks/nick_bostrom_a_philosophical_quest_for_our_biggest_problems Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 I want to talk today about -- 今天我所要讲的是- Ive been asked to take the long view, and Im going to tell you what 他们让我谈谈长远的观点-我要告诉你们 I think are the three biggest problems for humanity 我认为，从长远来看， from this long point of view. 人类面临着三大问题。 Some of these have already been touched upon by other speakers, 其中有些问题已经被其他讲演者提到了， which is encouraging. 这是很鼓舞人心的。 It seems that theres not just one person 看起来远不止一个人 who thinks that these problems are important. 认为这些问题意义重大。 The first is -- death is a big problem. 第一——死亡是一个重大的问题。 If you look at the statistics, 如果你看看统计数据， the odds are not very favorable to us. 形式对我们来说并不乐观。 So far, most people who have lived have also died. 到目前为止，大部分曾经活过的人，都已经死了。 Roughly 90 percent of everybody who has been alive has died by now. 大致来说，所有人类中百分之九十的人目前已经死亡了. So the annual death rate adds up to 150,000 -- 因此，年死亡率总计就是15万—— sorry, the daily death rate -- 150,000 people per day, 对不起，日死亡率——每天15万人， which is a huge number by any standard. 以任何标准看，这个数字都是巨大的。 The annual death rate, then, becomes 56 million. 那么，年死亡率就变成了5千6百万人。 If we just look at the single, biggest cause of death -- aging -- 如果我们只着眼于死亡的最大的单一因素——衰老—— it accounts for roughly two-thirds of all human people who die. 大约有三分之二的人因此而死。 That adds up to an annual death toll 这些每年因衰老而死亡的人数 of greater than the population of Canada. 比加拿大的人口还要多。 Sometimes, we dont see a problem 有时，我们无视于问题之存在， because either its too familiar or its too big. 因为要么这个问题太熟悉，要么这个问题太大了。 Cant see it because its too big. 因为问题太大了，所以我们看不见。 I think death might be both too familiar and too big 我认为，死亡对我们来说，既过于熟悉也过于巨大 for most people to see it as a problem. 因此大多数人都不会把它当做一个问题来看待。 Once you think about it, you see