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86. A Million-Year View on Morality

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Is There a Future for the Humans?

As an economist, i've been indoctrinated into this idea that economic growth is natural. But on much larger historical time spans, it's faster than expidential. And for most of history, economic growth came by a population growth not by our increased standards of living. So what's your educated guess as to the thing most likely to lead to our extinction in the next hundred years or thousand years? The thing that i think is most likely tolead to extinction, and where we aren't replaced by other sorts of beings such as artificial intelligence, is for our man made pandemics.

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