#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Modern Understanding of Existential Risk
The orthodox definition is an event that would cause the extinction or permanent curtailment of the potential for originating intelligence. The apocalypse rarely seems to think of the end of the world as the termination of humanly recognizable value or meaning so it's inherently meaningful in a way that extinction isn't, he says. He also points out there are four major points of distinction between Apocalypse and Extinction.
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