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51. Max Tegmark on Why Treating Humanity Like a Child Will Save Us All

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Is There Anything Worth Thinking About Other Than Climate Change?

There's a 50% chance of nuclear winter in the next 50 years. We humans are developing every more powerful tech, and that gives us the opportunity to cure cancer and eliminate poverty. The challenge you're facing is that the wisdom hasn't really kept pace with the power of the tech. You wouldn't want to go into a de care centre near where you live and give him a box of hand grenades and m 16 s. And i feel the same when we give some of the world leaders as physicists a box with 12 thousand hydrogen bombs and like te play with us.

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