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#0 - Effective Altruism, X-risk, (e/acc)

Reason Is Fun

CHAPTER

The Basics of Existential Risk

The probability of our survival is unknowable it might be zero or it might be one. You cannot know whether you're solving a given problem will solve the one that will kill us if there is one this feels really abstract to me. If we don't discover the answer then the best way of discovering the answer to that problem is to solve other problems, he says.

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