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#512 - Will MacAskill - How Long Could Humanity Continue For?
Modern Wisdom
Is Now an Unusually Important Time?
Early in our history, we weren't moving sufficiently quickly to be able to develop anything the would be that much of a surprise. Nick bostham has this analogy of a technological progress is like drawing balls from an ern. Most technologies can be used for good or ill. Fishen gave us nuclear tors also gave us the bom am. But you know, we're picking balls out of this urn at a faster rate than we did for almost all humanity's history - even if we don't go extinct in the next few centuries.
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