Astronomers theorize that a black hole forms when a massive object shrinks catastrophically under its own gravity, leaving only a gravitational field so strong that nothing escapes it.

天文学家的理论是，当一个巨大的物体在其自身的引力作用下灾难性地收缩，只留下一个强大的引力场，且没有任何东西能逃脱时，黑洞就形成了。

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Unless we act decisively and act now, the situation may deteriorate catastrophically and irreversibly.

如果我们不采取果断行动，不立即采取行动，形势就可能继续恶化并导致灾难性的后果，造成无法挽回的局面。

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Even formally favorable algorithms can slow catastrophically if they use so much memory as to require swapping.

即使形式上比较顺利的算法，如果它们使用了太多的内存以至于需要进行交换，那么它们也会慢得要命。

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"I don't think anything there was a surprise. What the assessment says is basically, things are catastrophically bad in Afghanistan, which is,I'd say, objectively true, but that things are not unsalvageable, that we can turn this around as long as we stay dedicated to the appropriate strategy and fully resource that strategy.

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Artificial intelligence does not need to be malevolent to be catastrophically dangerous to humanity.

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The next morning, Sunday, March 7th, the Ternovskiys were catastrophically late leaving for the airport.

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To do otherwise is to invite categorically wrong conclusions and catastrophically bad results, both theoretical and real.

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