Transhumanism and Existential Risk with Josh Schuster and Derek Woods
The Good Robot
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The Role of Race in Existential Risk
Kerry: I think it's important to make some distinctions at the beginning because we're talking about a fast-changing field. The original philosophical model we saw in folks like Bostermann Ortt tends to understand this extinction risk as something that has to include past genocides or say massive waves of suffering of famines produced by the British Empire. So those aren't seen as an existential, basically, that they're not part of the definition. They might be horrible in many ways, but they can only kind of take, and in some of the languages, often a bit dismissive that people use around this," Kerry says. "They're described as blips along the way to
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