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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is It Easier to Blow Ourself Up Than We Are to Avoid Them?
It's very hard to imagine people like the people we have been in the history books with exponential type technology and power that don't eventually blow themselves up. Could it be a weird psychological thing where we either are just more capable to visualize explosions and destruction? And then the sicker thought, which is like we kind of enjoy some weird reason thinking about that kind of stuff, even though we wouldn't actually act on it.
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