
#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Uncertainty of the Universe
"This lem's story is absolutely fantastic uh is my favorite explanation to the Fermi paradox yeah so i guess this puts us at what is you know quite a pessimistic answer this whole tale" "I think just to close off this history it'd be really nice if you could maybe talk a bit about these more optimistic plans for some of these massive engineering projects that you talked about and inspire a bit of hope into us," he says. 'There has been this growing sense of potential cosmic loneliness for a while now,' she adds. "'We feel cut off from this promised inheritance of living in this populous noisy valuetton galaxy as soon as we kind of leave that
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