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27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses

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Status and Sexuality Go Mostly Together

We have a near term incentive to pursue some advantage, but where the disadvantage of that thing might happen over a much longer term. Tha externality might show up over hundreds or thousands of years, but the benefit occurs over this year. So we have to get over that actually,. If we're affecting the world in such fundamental ways over the long term, we have to actuall be factoring that into our decision making. Now, that's one of the minimum requirements of a game b if it's going to exist, which also means a aviable civilization at all.

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