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Toby Ord | Existential Risk and Existential Hope

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Evolution of the Universe

I do think that to some extent realizing that the universe is so big is almost like one of these. It's kind of an epistemic version but when we discovered that the planets these dots that move around in the sky are the worlds you know the size of the earth that were either too unexplored would route there. This kind of vast expansion of like this that she is scale and also over the duration of time that was achievable I think that in some ways that's somewhat like this is kind of massive opening up of the space of possibilities compared to what we thought we could achieve. But yeah I'm afraid I really don't know and it partly depends on you know these subtleties of

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