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Toby Ord | Existential Risk and Existential Hope
The Foresight Institute Podcast
The Future of Life
In the final chapter I really focus on kind of my vision of of sketching out our potential and you know I characterize it by these different three different dimensions of duration. The typical mammalian species will live about a million years that if we can live until the sun makes the earth uninhabitable that's about a billion years. There are 20 trillion galaxies that that are reachable in our universe according to our best understanding of cosmology at the moment, so there doesn't seem to be anything preventing us from spreading out into space. And then a third one is the quality that our each of our lives could be could be so much better than they are now as evidenced by the fact that our peak
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