i'm more worried about really bad events that are not quite extinction level. Even a major thermo nuclear war wouldn't render humanity extinct. Asteroids hitting the earth is pretty cheap to worry about, compared to other ones. i don't think we need to spend large fractions of our g d ps worrying about those things. We need to spend a small, but prudent fraction on them.
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