i think what you're setting up here and what you're describing, i thinkit kind of gives us insight into the way that these people think, right? For someone like ila musk, the threat that we face is from not developing our technology. We can insure that if something happens to earth, the human species continues on somewhere else. It seems that by letting someone like an ilamusk and these people who have these really odd beliefs about the future, that actually creates a lot of risks for those of us who aren't the richest man in the world.
Paris Marx is joined by Émile P. Torres to discuss why longtermism isn’t just about long-term thinking, but provides a framework for Silicon Valley billionaires to justify ignoring the crises facing humanity so they can accumulate wealth and go after space colonization.
Émile P. Torres is a PhD candidate at Leibniz University Hannover and the author of the forthcoming book Human Extinction: A History of Thinking About the End of Humanity. Follow Phil on Twitter at @xriskology.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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