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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Key Aspect of Catastrophic Risk

There's a catastrophic risk that will help us kind of make concrete the discussion we're having about how to fix this whole thing. World War II in the bomb was the first time that we had tech big enough that could actually mess up everything at a global level. We just weren't powerful enough to do that before. The Bretton Woods solution is basically over, almost over.

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