#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Inductivist Argument
i think by showing through the historical you know cumulation and growth of our insight uh we can show that we are now more influential than you know anyone before. i would be very surprised if within a next generation or even two or maybe three that we gain like a lot more insight in the vicinity of things like existential risk, he says. I could be very much be proven wrong now but that's my sense from looking at the kind of development of ideas as it's not particularly gradual in that kind of simplified way.
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