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#324 - Alex Epstein - Can Fossil Fuels Save The World?

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Is There Existential Risk in Extinction Rebellion?

Toby runs mathematical models os a philosopher from the future of humanity's institute an oxford, which is the number one existential risk research lab in the world. Over the next century, the likelihood that climate change is an existential risk to us is one in ten thousand. The likelihood of superintelligent, artificial general intelligence that's mis alined is one in 10. Natural pandemics, one in 30. Engineered pandemics,. one in a hundred. Super volcanoes, one in a million. Gamma ray bursts and asteroids all pales in comparison. We need technology to protect ourselves. Every animal on the earth will die eventually. Even if you want to roll the clock forward

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