Sentence examples for great filter from inspiring English sources

Bostrom reasons that this would suggest that the Great Filter comes at some later evolutionary stage.

But it needs to be connected to what interests people, and friends can be a great filter for that".

If there is a future great filter, it must have been noticed by other civilisations too, and even that didn't help.

"Perhaps the most likely type of existential risks that could constitute a Great Filter are those that arise from technological discovery.

In Bostrom's view, the most distressing possibility is that the Great Filter is ahead of us — that evolution frequently achieves civilizations like our own, but they perish before reaching their technological maturity.

Mr. Bloomberg, who has never had a great filter for catching untactful comments when speaking in public, sometimes seems to turn it off completely when he is talking about the sensitive issues of redevelopment, memorials and grief.

Bos­trom likes to think of these hurdles as Great Filters: key phases of improbability that life everywhere must pass through in order to develop into intelligent species.

"Because there are so many great filters which users have uploaded, we do not see the need for creating new filters," she said.

Remember that they just purchased FriendFeed, which features a combination of an asymmetric social graph with great filters.

They generally require a higher filtration rate and greater filter capacity because they accumulate large amounts of fecal wastes.

How about Eden dramatises the very moment the DJs invented filter-disco's greatest filter effect in a kind of Hustle and Flow-style invention scene.