Ep 184: ToKCast Digest - An Overview of Optimism
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The Argument for Free Will and Existence
I like to respond to the prevailing pessimism that exists out there as promoted by intellectual luminaries of our time. People who are narrowly focused on this concept of existential risk, but looking at it through a lens of either we're going to destroy ourselves or we're incapable of saving ourselves. So long as we continue to solve them at a rate faster than they're likely to kill us, then we can survive, and we will survive if we maintain optimism. The final chapter of The Beginning Infinity is called The Beginning. And so I won't say any more about that now,. But that brings us up to the end of almost the end of my discussion of The Beginning infinity. It's called
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