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Toby Ord | Existential Risk and Existential Hope

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Unthinkable Has Come Real

Kriyal D: I think that having had that kind of come real is really going to change the way that that people think about this. The idea that this coronavirus really could be worse than anything that's happened since World War II as at the international level you know a bigger world event than anything like that it just kind of felt like well that's just not going to happen is it or something like that. He says he doesn't put too much stock in this kind of saving throw we'd get where if we screw up that something else comes along and utilizes this kind of remaining 500 million or billion years that the earth has for its own good. Kriyal asks

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