#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Emergence of Existential Risk
The development of nuclear weapons led to the possibility that humanity might be the source of its own um existential catastrophe. People started thinking about anthropogenic extinction omnisides after World War I and it's a sophisticated thing for someone to re-emerge which is what happened with leo slizzard. A lot of people before the bomb thought that such a destructive kind of technology was out of our reach so as a really interesting passage in how dane written in the late 1920s where he talks about long-term future of humanity says we can expect to exist further.
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