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AMA | October 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are There Any Reasons Why We Shouldn't Extinguish Humankind?

Peter Galais: If extinction would mean an end to suffering for all time, is there a case to be made that extinction might be the more moral choice? Sandro Stuckey says if the large-scale structure of the universe arose out of quantum fluctuations near the Big Bang, does that mean there's an infinite number of universes. And if so, what caused the superposition of all these states to deco here? So I want to clean up a couple things here. It's a different quantum state. Not all quantum states are eigenstates.

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