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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Right Way Out

There's plenty of doomsday cults out there, and at some point one of them ill get bored and decide to speed things along. The crazy motives we can imagine driving some one to launch a doomsday pandemic are terrifyingly broad. We shouldn't want to stop sinbayo in its tracks, because promise is almost boundless. Unlike nuclear programmes, which require vast industrial complexes, and therefore can be monitored? Biology can be practised almost invisibly. And while a tiny handful of such people will almost inevitably go rogue as training proliferates ever more broadly, the ratio of allies to enemies will be staggeringly high.

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