One of the methodological issues facing me as I worked on this was whether or not to include people who were not x-risk researchers but who had written a piece or two about x-risk. Several of the authors in the new Global Catastrophic Risk (2008) book appear to fall into this category. In practical terms, the physicists who are x-risk researchers have the same resumes as physicists who are not, but making the distinction does keep the list from getting too long.
I say all that because I may or may not decide to include each of these people in the roll call. Your effort is appreciated regardless.
Sir Martin Rees, wrote a book about human extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Final_Hour
Richard Posner, wrote a book about human extinction
2004 Catastrophe: Risk and Response, ISBN 978-0-19-530647-7
John Lesli, wrote a book about human extinction - The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction http://books.google.ru/books/about/The_End_of_the_World.html?id=gUXgpH6nizIC&redir_esc=y
Bill Joy wrote famous article “Why the future does not need us”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_The_Future_Doesn’t_Need_Us
J.Carrigan wrote about risks of dowloading alien AI via SETI. http://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/SETI/SETI%20Hacker_AC-03-IAA-8-3-06.doc
Robert Freitas wrote an article about grey goo with math estimates. http://www.foresight.org/nano/Ecophagy.html
Adrian Kent wrote “Critical look at risk assessments for global catastrophes”—an article about collider and probabilities. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0009204
Herman Khan wrote about Doomsday machine in the book “On Thermonuclear war”. http://www.scribd.com/doc/16563514/Herman-Khan-On-Doomsday-machine
Excellent, I will check all of these out.
One of the methodological issues facing me as I worked on this was whether or not to include people who were not x-risk researchers but who had written a piece or two about x-risk. Several of the authors in the new Global Catastrophic Risk (2008) book appear to fall into this category. In practical terms, the physicists who are x-risk researchers have the same resumes as physicists who are not, but making the distinction does keep the list from getting too long.
I say all that because I may or may not decide to include each of these people in the roll call. Your effort is appreciated regardless.