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Existential Hope Podcast: Worldbuilding | Anthony Aguirre & Anna Yelizarova from Future of Life Institute

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Importance of Hope in Life

Anna: "I might attribute more probability to the future being like kind of crappy than good so in that sense I'd say I'm like a meticulous pessimist" Her family grew up in the former Soviet Union and she says they had it much harder than we have. She hopes humanity will not just get depressed but live their lives rather than hide from the world. Anna: "We can always complain about issues or experiencing and how the world is so much worse."

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