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Love or Die #1: A conversation series with Marc Gafni

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The Dangers of Existential Risk

Andrew Keen: There's no room for naive polyannish optimism. He says we need to reject a Cassandra-like kind of love or doomsayer and actually say, 'We're actually going to die' A decade ago he turned the entire weight of his own personal energy and air into taking existential risk seriously. The cosmos went from quarks to culture, mud to Mozart, from bacteria to Bach, right? From utter devastation to unimaginable dignity. And that plot line isn't exhausted within one lifetime. It's over many lifetimes.

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