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#208 — Existential Risk

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Anthropogenic Risks - What Are the Most Concerned About?

In general, it's very difficult to estimate the chance of something that would have stopped the very observation that you're making now of happening. You can avoid all that, or most of it, by looking at related species, and you get a very similar result. They tend to last around about a million years before going extinct. And so since home sapiene is much more widely spread across the surface of the earth and and much less dependent upon a particular species for food, we're very robust in a lot of ways. But unfortunately, the same can't be said for the anthropogenic risks, yer. The likelihood that we might destroy ourselves in the next century by a making some...

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