This appears to be a more useful link:

http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-27-09.html

Obviously [nuclear disarmament] is never going to work

Damn it.

Every year that nuclear weapons exist there is a certain chance that someone uses them and triggers the apocalypse. I don't know what that chance is. But even if it's very low, given enough time it is certain to happen! Bear in mind that nuclear war has almost started on several occasions, including by accident. We cannot survive this situation forever.

Qualia are the one thing for which there is no scientific evidence, but everyone knows exists.

The thing about qualia is that they cause humans to go about arguing about qualia! Given that they have this massive effect on the world, I find it hard to believe they aren't physical.

It looks to me like it's intended as a reductio ad absurdum of the concept of free will: i.e. assume free will exists, then show that ridiculous things follow. To me, it's obvious that free will doesn't exist. Our brains are made of the same stuff as the rest of the universe, obeying the same laws. These laws may be indeterministic, but since we have no control over quantum randomness, that randomness doesn't help us in any way.

Women are valuable because they are less replaceable [...] you need women to carry the babies.

Ridiculous. The human race currently has over 6 billion members. It's not some endangered species where females of breeding age are to be preserved above everything else. If a man and a women of equal age have to choose between them who gets rescued, they should flip a coin.

"other alien races are as leery of sending out giant seedships that they themselves can't ride in"

But for this argument to work, you have to believe that every alien race declines to send out automated self-replicators.

"Maybe we are the first to achieve this capability."

Absolutely. That's the explanation I favour, but it means that intelligent life is much, much rarer than a lot of people suppose.

"Paradox solved, right?"

No. Some planets suitable for life have almost certainly existed in this galaxy for billions of years longer than the Earth. By now, one would expect there to have been civilisations that spread throughout the galaxy and therefore brought Earth within detection range of their signals...

Oh for God's sake. Just because there have been five major extinction events in the past doesn't mean we should gladly cause a sixth.