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Sara Walker | Unraveling Life's Beginnings with the Cosmic Perspective

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Importance of Being Aware of Existential Threats

I think we should inject more positivity and more creativity about what the future could look like for the reasons I stated that we need to build it. In some sense when people are talking about existential threats and working on those problems I'm almost no longer worried about those threats because someone actually recognizes that they are a possibility and they're trying to steer us away from them. What do you say? Do you have any suggestions of a better name than eukatastrophs? That's a tough one because now I'm just trying to permute that word but didn't give me an answer so try something else in the future.

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