We're, as a consequence, going to focus on worst case. This is handy for a couple of reasons.

因此我们会去关注最坏的情况,因为如下的原因这样做。

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So how do we do research that's more responsible, ? that does not lead to detrimental results?

我们怎样做更负责任的研究，怎样杜绝研究产生坏影响？

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The laws can't do anything about making people better or worse, it takes them as they are and then it deals with them accordingly.

现今的法律做不到让人,变得更好或更坏,它让人们维持原样,并且循规蹈矩的处理事情

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If you were giving a job talk-- and this is for people in graduate school particularly-- If you were giving a job talk and the slide projector breaks, you're screwed.

如果你要做一个职业演讲-,特别是给研究生院做-,如果你正在做演讲，结果投影机坏了，你完蛋了。

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And so what I'm really doing is inviting you to take a good, cold, hard look at death, and to face it and think about it in a way that most of us don't do.

那就是我要你们做的，认清，死亡的好和坏，面对它，然后思考它,用我们从没用过的方式。

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The bad news is it seems like whatever we do, it doesn't matter.

坏消息是，看来不论我们怎么做，都无关紧要。

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What he means, for instance, in this case is well, talking to yourself is self-reinforcing or giving bad news to an enemy is reinforcing because it makes your enemy feel bad.

比如在这个例子中，他的意思其实是，自言自语是种自我强化行为,而向敌人散布坏消息也是一种强化,因为这样做可以使敌人感到不快。

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