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Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life
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The Risk of Nuclear War Is Much Greater Than the Risk of Asteroids
I think if we destroy ourselves this century, I think it's far more likely to be the result of new things that humans have created. Things that we can't predict now or something specific. We just don't have a similar argument that like nuclear war is a one in 100,000 per year thing. That just seems so overconfident. Fortunately, I guess now we're probably safer than we were during the Cold War. The technology is somewhat better. It's like you could end up with a nuclear Cold War between China and the US. So it's Russia. And so many of these near misses are terrifying. Do you know any stories off the top of my head, but
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