#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Evolution of Self-Esteem
Human self-esteem in the sense that decentering us actually was a kind of spreading of anthropic life throughout the entire universe. One of these interesting yeah interesting episodes because you know it shows the persistence of certain biases into the secularizing and naturalizing worldviews. The central idea of astrobiology is habitability so the question of where life can emerge elsewhere in the cosmos what are the conditions for that. It's applying insights from macro evolution to think about them in a cosmological context.
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