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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Self-terminating Civilization (E34)

A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast

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Is There a Better Choice Making Than the Power of Our Choice Making?

exponential tech means I've exponentially bigger levers to make choices with mean more impact from my choice but nothing ensuring an exponentially better choice making and better and a good for the whole. We don't want somebody in their basement being able to build CRISPR weapons that's a bad idea and yet we also don't want 1984. If you ask people who study existential risk like exponential tech media at existential risk how do we avoid blowing ourselves up from stuff that people are doing in their basement with no exotic materials that nobody can tell? A very common answer is ubiquitous surveillance universal surveillance everywhere nobody can be doing anything in there. The state has surveillance on everybody everybody doesn't have an input back to that and

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