Musk seems convinced that we may very well live in a computer simulation. He just doesn't care that much if he upsets people or is mean to people. And then, on the other hand, i think so he seems quite sure that we live in acomputer simulation. So you might think maybe, maybe i am in a computer Simulation. That's pretty unlikely. Yo, no, it's the probability that you're going to become like, the richest person on earth,. maybe the richest person ever, maybe the most powerful human being ever in human history. Think they're following musk yours? I would double check, i think that's the case.
Paris Marx is joined by Émile P. Torres to discuss why longtermism isn’t just about long-term thinking, but provides a framework for Silicon Valley billionaires to justify ignoring the crises facing humanity so they can accumulate wealth and go after space colonization.
Émile P. Torres is a PhD candidate at Leibniz University Hannover and the author of the forthcoming book Human Extinction: A History of Thinking About the End of Humanity. Follow Phil on Twitter at @xriskology.
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