Home Songs Speeches Programs

X Days of X Risk

By Raymond Arnold

Six (or more) ways the world could end

To the tune of 12 days of Christmas.

There’s a set of hand gestures that go with this.

NYC2015 performance is on Youtube, showing the gestures.

This song is available for sale via bandcamp in the 2015 album.

A Bayesian Choir Performance of this song is on Youtube.

A longer variant uses:

Eight nanites making 16 nanites… Seven icecaps melting Six labs a-leaking Five rogue AIs Four volcanoes Three asteroids Two atom bombs And the end of humanity

edit description

Lyrics

(to the tune of "12 days of Christmas")

On the first day of X-Risk I suddenly could see:
The end of humanity
On the second day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
Nuclear War!
And the end of humanity
On the third day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
Pandemic Plagues
Nuclear War
And the end of humanity
On the fourth day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
Bioengineering
Pandemic Plagues
Nuclear War
And the end of humanity
On the fifth day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
Unfriendly AI...
Bioengineering
Pandemic Plagues
Nuclear War
And the end of humanity
On the sixth day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
One nanite making two nanites making...
Unfriendly AI...
Bioengineering
Pandemic Plagues
Nuclear War
And the end of humanity

Files

Raw Git Folder