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#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What's the One That Worries You the Most?

There are key dangerous situations that can take place in biology. Someone could create a virus that's very, I mean we have viruses that are hard to spread and they can be very dangerous. Somebody could create something that would be very easy to spread and very dangerous and be very hard to stop. It could be something that was spread without people noticing because people could get it that have no symptoms but then everybody would get it. And that actually doesn't occur normally as if we were to have a problem with that, we wouldn't exist. So the fact that humans exist means that we don't have viruses that can spread easily and kill us because otherwise we wouldn't existence.

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