#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Origins of Uniformitarianism
In the 1700s scientists were like well we need to be empiricists and rigorous about this so let's cut all of the unobservable supernatural stuff away. The idea against catastrophes there was called uniformitarianism which meant that nature is always the same. So by kind of strict implication that means the same would apply to us, he says.
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