
Ep 138: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 5: Minds II - Part the Second
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Is There a Global Catastrophe?
Think tank is a place to help reduce global catastrophic and existential risks facing humanity, particularly existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence. So he's in the business of being concerned about this stuff. He like Nick Bostrom, like Will McCaskill, like various other people who have such institutes that are concerned about the far distant future will be looking for funding. And so in order to capture attention, you're going to have to ramp up a little bit of hyperbole, one might say, just how bad things might get. Never mind talking about the ways in which it won't be such a problem, the ways inWhich it will be solved by our descendants. You don't have
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