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What's the Worst That Could Happen?

Book • 2021
Andrew Leigh's book examines existential risks such as nuclear war, pandemics, climate change, and unaligned artificial intelligence.

He argues that populist politics increases these risks by fostering short-term thinking and undermining democratic institutions.

Leigh advocates for a long-term approach to mitigate these dangers.

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Sean M. Carroll
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187 | Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters
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Dan Cleather
as his most commercially disastrous book and a memoir about his OCD.
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