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Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Are We Doing Enough to Fend Off Asteroids or Comets?

We're not doing enough to counteract artificially caused pandemics, for example. We shouldn't be developing the technology for fending off em er asteroids or comets, because it could also be used to destroy us. And again, this is something that's actually going in the right direction. 20 years ago, the idea of an asteroid defense system was ridiculed,. literally ridiculed and rejected just for being ridiculed.

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