Those worries, echoed by many illustrators and other digital creatives, are reverberating on social media as many people encounter these thorny issues — and the existential threat they seem to pose — for the first time.
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SBF belonged to the “longtermist” sect of effective altruism, which focuses on events that could pose a long-term existential threat to humanity, like pandemics or the rise of runaway artificial intelligence.
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"This is an existential threat.
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The impacts that prevent us from coasting might be short lived or long term; they might even be existential in nature.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs featuring Perfume Genius, ‘Spitting off the Edge of the World’Yeah Yeah Yeahs grow elegantly into their role as art-rock elders here, not just by slowing to a tempo as confidently glacial as the Cure’s “Plainsong,” but by placing a spotlight on the existential dread of the next generation.
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What makes "Final Destination" a classic is the way it retools slasher conventions to make something far more existential.
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‘Suffer Well’, one of three he wrote, was stark existential electropop – set to Gahan cutting himself down the middle and letting us see inside, whether we wanted to or not.
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The two biggest existential crises facing the VCP are environmental change and environmental activism.
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What do you do with the existential crisis of basically saying, "Listen, my stock is down so low, boy I'd love to buy it.
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Against a backdrop of blue skies and autumn leaves that would make an Instagram filter blush, a group of agricultural postgraduate students at a New Brunswick farm are tinkering with technology they hope will one day help solve an existential crisis: how to save the world’s potatoes.
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"Handler went on to say that Disney has an existential question to consider: "Does Disney want to be old or new media? Video games is a $200 billion global industry and growing.
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Simple strifes like minor inconveniences or stress buildup turn into existential crises and the emotional infection of old wounds.
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An album that is quite literally as old as I am, Blur’s 1997 self-titled album is Britpop in the midst of an existential crisis.
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“Just 48 miles north of us exists an existential threat; a threat that we must be prepared to deter, defend against, and – if required – defeat,” Lt.
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But for liberal mainline Protestants like the Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, the hemorrhaging of members has become an existential question.
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Schiele created a new body language, expressing emotional states such as ambivalence, despair and existential fear in a new way, by elongating and distorting the human body.
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With its claustrophobic spaces and free-floating fear, She Dies Tomorrow is built around an eerily timely theme: existential dread as thought virus.
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And yet it continues to amaze me how often this existential decision gets screwed up.
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For years now, members of Congress, government officials, military leaders, and think-tank talking heads have been issuing dire warnings about the imminent and existential threat posed by China.
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Young people are rejecting organized religion and some churches are facing an existential crisis.
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Climate change as an existential issue, as interpreted by Chouinard, is the subject of the final chapter in my book, “Ripple Effects: How to Save Yellowstone and America’s Most Iconic Wildlife Ecosystem.
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Yet the subject of existential homelessness is the connective tissue that unites “Odyssey’s” various strands.
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Meanwhile, like a lyric warrior lurking in the dark side stages, singer Maynard James Keenan champs at the bit, knees bent while delivering short, sharp discourses on the spirit/body dilemma, self-realization, and existential dread.
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Bergman Island (2021)Bergman Island (Available 1/14)Welcome to the island of Fårö, a scenic getaway where the lingering essence of former inhabitant Ingmar Bergman overcasts the leisurely sightseeing with existential isolation and reminders of life’s many unfulfilled expectations.
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So, it sort of freaks everybody out, because you just see an industry that has always done very well go through an existential crisis and question things that have always worked.
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Who wants the physical crush and existential despair when you can settle for the soulless convenience of computer clicking?Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton in Where Eagles Dare, now a traditional Christmas film for many.
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“It put me in a bit of an existential crisis about what I was doing for a living,” he says.
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Afraid of the Sun!’ — seemed to Jeff and me especially profound right now, this song about isolation, fear, and existential risks to our world,” Depp said back then in a press release on Beck’s website.
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The concept of “Angry, Undead” is an intricate one with each of the eight songs falling under a distinct axis: Chaos (social manifestations); Madness (individual manifestations); and Void (existential manifestations).
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To Musk, this is an existential issue for a free and democratic society.
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Is it simply a case of never finding the right guy, or is there a bigger awakening afoot?
Like most worthwhile films about the existential brutality of the teenage experience, Girl Picture agrees to embrace the awkwardness of those formative years; the overwhelming and intoxicating feelings, those uneasy nascent sexual encounters, and in the case of Rönkkö the fragile egos of teenage boys.
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an existential threat,” aren’t the only folks taking solace from the midterm results, argues The New York Times’ Russ Douthat.
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It offers no hope of finding our way out of the catastrophe, of avoiding the tightly population-related existential threats of climate disruption, biodiversity extermination, toxic chemicals (likely related to the global decline in human sperm count), declines in soil quality, ground water, and other resources and escalating chances for nuclear war.
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It’s, at its purest, an existential series that aptly bounces between the highs and lows of being alive, and even ends with the kind of bittersweet note you’d expect.
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Local journalism is facing an existential crisis because of Big Tech’s abusive business tactics.
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On the one hand it is an existential psychological drama, but on the other hand it is a nightmarish cautionary tale.
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Amid an existential struggle to ramp up manufacturing of the company’s first mass-market car, the Model 3, he said he was considering leaving Tesla.
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The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes.
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With Boseman’s absence, the film holds more emotional weight as characters have existential crises, some more pronounced than others.
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Do you believe that neuroscience will help us answer existential questions such as why we are here or where consciousness comes from?Answer.
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The male R&B singers of the ’90s might’ve been on top of the charts, but they were also dealing with the existential threat of rap music, which had grown increasingly ribald and increasingly popular at the same time.
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She was in the process of shaping her expectations for her life, her career, her family: the existential dilemmas that all 20-somethings are supposed to have the luxury of wrestling with.
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Noémie Lvovsky offers up a joyous interlude in the form of a musical and a light-hearted parable on existential themesDenis Podalydès in The Great Magic"I’m a happy man: I don’t delude myself, I don’t expect any surprises from life and I don’t trust anyone", one person states.
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It deals with an existential issue that we're all having as a species, not just an industry.
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What used to be a very niche, an almost existential way for people to learn more about themselves in this expansive universe, has become the only thing I ever need to know about you.
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She describes her book as combining “the high concept of Station Eleven with the doomed romance of Normal People, and the existential questions of Life After Life".
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Fletcher later recalled an existential moment at which he asked himself “why am I in the band? It was accidental right from the beginning.
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Throughout the pandemic, the streaming airwaves have been flooded with very serious documentaries that chronicle the existential gravitational pull of cults and the never-ending stable of serial killers to reinterrogate.
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He described cheating as “an existential threat to the game,” and he surely has a point.
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Her response feels as affirmative as a best friend coaxing you out of the existential depths and back onto the dance floor: “Up on the hill, we’ll see it all end / Die happy thinking ‘bout my best friends / ‘Til then I’m diving off the deep end / ‘Don’t think twice about it,’ I say.
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Do you think that they were aware of the cracks of their relationship beforehand, or was it being far from home and out of their usual routine that exposed them? A vacation is necessarily a time of reflection, in a way, because you break out of your day-to-day life and it does put you in an existential place.
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As one of the most powerful gummies out there, this high THC experience can help induce relaxation and help you get a full night’s sleep, all while letting your mind wander to answer existential questions and enjoy your favorite TV shows after ordering some munchies.
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I would love to see these two poets discuss their creative ways of working through it, getting back their self-esteem, their own identity, working through survivor’s guilt and grief, and maybe discovering in this process a deeper meaning to their life: an existential discovery as reward for their soul-searching.
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Shot in the midst of the pandemic, it’s a tight-knit existential drama about coming to grips with intergenerational disconnection, mother-daughter bonds coming unraveled, and the impact of death on all those things.
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Make no mistake: Effectively countering China starts with putting a team on the field that believes Beijing poses an existential threat to our freedoms and is committed to girding up for the fight.
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"This is an existential threat.
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“Run it back I ain’t practice for months and I still dominate/ Affect big domino, crime rate ominous/ Mind state prominent/ Prime time shine,” volleys phiik on early moment “SLIGHT OF HAND,” embracing a backdrop of subdued piano chops and rustling cymbal lines before sliding into existential territory: “You ain’t give the drummer some and everybody need a substance to eat/ Bad dream alleviate, counting dead sheep in my database/ When I don’t wanna wake up and figure out how today’s gonna suffocate/ Great minds don’t think alike—they think twice.
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Jeff Anderson and Brian O’Halloran are terrific, eliciting laughter while also cutting to these lovably crass characters’ dramatic, existential core.
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What links existential punching bag Johnny Knoxville to eternal flyboy Pete Mitchell (and the guy who plays him, Tom Cruise) is a desire to be the best of the best at what they do, whether that’s piloting supersonic stealth aircraft or getting blasted out of a cannon.
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"Sikorsky President Paul Lemmo told the Connecticut Business & Industry Association on Friday that the decision is an existential threat to the company.
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It’s a video game that’s more immersive and story-like than most others, and even gets you reflecting on the existential layers of life.
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This hodgepodge of mediums hangs together on bursts of narration from Moby — “If I figure out my perfect existential portofolio, then I’ll find perfect human happiness,” something he says he tried and failed at — and a wealth of musical selections, everything from vintage alt-90s MTV rave splatter and stadium-sized electronic music bombast to Moby performing the heavy-hitters from 1999’s Play with a live orchestra and female vocalists.
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I wanted to make a film about death to ask the extraordinarily stupid existential question: is death necessary? Do you think death is necessary?
NR: That’s a big question, but I suppose it is a natural process.
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Black Celebration, Music for the Masses and Violator were the soundtracks of youth, heady college days, swirling levels of intensity, and falling in love for the first time; Songs of Faith and Devotion and Ultra instilled an immense sense of existential awareness, endless nights, and how the the darkness of life could be re-examined in luminescence; the latter albums Exciter, Playing the Angel, Sounds of the Universe, Delta Machine charted different periods in life with immense joy and heartbreak as the stories of these LPs and songs provided us with remarkable levels of levitation and solace; and as the last album Spirit inspired us in their societal and political critique, it also enabled us to reconsider our worldviews on solitude and longing in how we preciously inhabit what it means to be alive as captured in the beguiling song “Cover Me.
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Instead, like Yeltsin in 1994, he encountered a populace united against an existential threat.
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Let’s say you want to teach a class about 19th-century existential philosophy and its implications for modern identity politics.
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Experts in academia, crypto exchanges, the research community and the legal industry are speaking out, in the face of increasingly massive losses, to say that hacking does not present an existential risk to crypto as a concept.
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: Artificial IntelligenceCredit: Amblin Writers and Directors Are Very Worried About AI in Hollywood We wrote yesterday about ChatGPT, it's the latest development in artificial intelligence that blurs the line between art and aggregation, leading us perhaps further down a rabbit hole of post-modern misinformation and existential dread.
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Climate change is an existential issue, but the NSS stresses the importance of “out-competing” China; rejuvenating American domestic industry and manufacturing is a sine qua non for the maintenance of American power, but so is deepening trade and economic integration across the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean basins.
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It is an exaggeration to suggest that America radicalized Qutb, but it does seem to have strongly reinforced his aversion to the country and the West in general, which he came to regard as an existential threat to Islam.
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In Hunter’s plays, the resulting sound is often a moan, as he explores a post-boom, existential vastness in which emotional and economic collapse are conjoined.
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Buy on AmazonBookshopThe Backstreetsby Perhat Tursun, translated from the Uyghur by Darren Byler (Columbia)NonfictionThe narrator of this dark, existential novel—a startling literary document of urban alienation—is an Uyghur man roaming Ürümqi in search of a room to rent.
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How do we answer this terrible existential dread we all feel? How do we pay the price of mortality? With a drive for morality — to live a worthy life — and everyone has it.
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Over the years, it wasn’t unusual for students to knock on their door late at night to go over an existential crisis, and her family patiently supported her work.
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Again, by contrasting John Lennon’s and George Harrison’s development after their experience with the Maharishi we can see that the adoption of a particular guru is an existential choice.
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SBF belonged to the “longtermist” sect of effective altruism, which focuses on events that could pose a long-term existential threat to humanity, like pandemics or the rise of runaway artificial intelligence.
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Mayer detects a more existential threat.
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At the same time, climate change is only one segment of the world’s environmental problems — albeit the most existential one.
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"This is an existential conflict for Ukraine, … the brutality of this is fueling an even stronger resolve in the Ukrainian people," he said.
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Just think—that précis of existential angst was written before Art Basel Miami Beach even existed.
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So someone who has a thought or a point of view or is looking over your shoulder makes you feel less like you’re having an isolated existential crisis every day.
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They are well acquainted with existential threats and driven, confident and pragmatic about building a thriving future.
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Ben lives on in Marvel Comics as an even angstier, more existential Spider-Man than Peter Parker, and he appears to have a role to play in Across the Spider-Verse, judging by a leaked Hasbro toy release.
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The play begins with these disoriented disciples of their existential mentor, Samuel Beckett, attending to the necessary actions (at least, on the part of Gogo) to bury the unseen remains of their dearly-departed mentor in a plot being dug (by Gogo) behind “Godot’s” famous barren tree.
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You’ll face harrowing challenges, like volatile wildlife and other existential threats.
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For journalists, it’s potentially an existential threat, because OpenAI’s technology can generate serviceable content with very little input.
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Outside of thrill rides or extreme sports, corporeal deviations from 1 g often pose an existential threat: Consider falling from a ladder, tumbling down stairs, or being forcibly shoved to the ground.
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The dark-hued opening stomp of Neocon suggests that its creators’ focus has been sharpened by early 2000's political discord, while album highlight (Can't Get My) Head Around You is a welcome reminder of what it sounds like when Dexter Holland lets the existential despair spill out.
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But for liberal mainline Protestants like the Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, the hemorrhaging of members has become an existential question.
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Bardo centers on a Mexican documentarian whose return home becomes an uncannily cinematic existential crisis.
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But behind the captivating lure of this footballing spectacle, there has been an existential battle taking place at the Al Jazeera offices.
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This also raises the existential question of what a printed newspaper should be in the digital era.
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It's not fun to watch people have an existential crisis on TV.
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Great albums reveal themselves to attentive audiences, who in turn unpack their aesthetic and existential truths.
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The film explores the texture of time with a blend of magic realism and existential horror to express the sense of dread and temporal stasis generated universally by the Covid19 Pandemic.
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