
179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Hindenburg, the Challenger and Iternoble
There are proposals for go engineering and like putting particles up in the atmosphere, apli, just like volcanoes do. What could possibly go wrong? Takyourinis is rit omlans deses like that a joke. Also the negativety bias. Losses hurt twice as much as gainsfield good. We have more word, more, more words for negative emotions than positive emotions. Because of entropy, we're designed to notice the things that go wrong. There's way more ways for things to go wrong than to go right. I think pinker makes the analogy of a sand castle. And that's kind of a metaphor for the human body. You know, the best
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