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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Building a Global Immune System to Fight Off New Diseases
i'm not confident that civilization could even survive something like a highly contagious version of h five and one flue. The congressional budget office estimates that covid will cost the us alone seven point nine trillion dollars in economic activity, while former harvard president lawrence somers pegs the domestic cost at 16 trillion dollars. Modern life sciences, absolutely including sinbao, are magical arts, and we can and should enlist them against ancient enemies, along with emerging ones. And as we'll discuss in a bit, we might all but eradicate the flue we get just one thing off o f my wish list.
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