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Several Serious Cases
Several serious cases have come to my attention of patients who present no overt symptoms of perversion, maladaption, psychosis nor dementia yet nonetheless harbour beliefs which if acted upon, an unlikely but real possibility in my honest estimation, produce non-negligible existential risk. I believe these transcripts provide evidence for immediate concern and resolute action: '... I want to see the world explode to see what's beneath the mantle. I'm insatiably curious, sir, and so determined to find out that I'll gather up galaxies if I need to, build a gravitational accelerator out of supermassive black holes -an intergalactic large earthlike planet accelerator- if you will I'll let as many collide as statistic certainty requires, you know, it's quite fantastic what large numbers can accomplish. To reliably determine the number of pistons in an engine, for example, examining one hundred wreckages will certainly suffice ...' ...