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Back To The Future - Tyler Cowen

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Existential Risk

It took you 20 years to write stubborn attachments. How much did the core argument change over those years? Or did it not change at all? It did change, but first one point: I didn't work on it full time 20 years or anything close to that. The main difference is this, the early versions of the book had a lot on existential risk and its importance. But just so many other books and other people have handled that, I ended up cutting it. Not really a change of heart, but definitely the core narrowed.

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