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163. Is Everything Better Than We Think? | Bjorn Lomborg

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Non Zero Probability of Going Really, Really Wrong?

K, i do think that generally speaking, it's best to take people at face value. It might be that we don't know how to deal with a problem that has a non zero probability of being infinite. If you imagine we did nothing about hi vads, you could very easily imagine one or more states in africa collapsing over the 20 first century. You can come up with almost any kind of scenario that will end the wor and clearly, we also have many, many other senaries that we're not particularly worried about.

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