#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Importance of Intellectual History in Action
intellectual history can be used as a guide to action, says parf. Parf's work with amda sandberg shows that the idea of wireheading pre-existed animal behavior in many different areas prior to any empirical scientific evidence being put forward to support this myth. "The history of ideas gives a sense of uh how far we've come," he adds.
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