#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Evolution of Darwinism
We've talked about all sorts of different fields which are hitting into humanity's self esteem. One of the things that I want to bring in is Darwin's work in particular what I found really interesting about how your book talks about Darwin's work is actually how it got reinterpreted. Initially people found a lot of hope in Darwin and you mentioned this thing called the intelligence niche could you briefly explain why people saw that as a source of hope?
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