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#208 — Existential Risk

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Precipice - The Greatest Downside Protection We Might Find for Ourself

i think people would be surprised to find out how how recent it was that we really understood asteroids, especially people of my generation. The chance of a one kilometer or more asteroid hitting us in the next century is about one in a hundred and twenty thousand. And other things that have been talked about as extinction possibilities when you look at the probabilities the they're extremely low. But there's probably more natural risks that we don't even know about yet. So i'll flag some of what we're skipping past here. O k, well, let's talk about the greatest downside protection we might find for ourselves,. Talk about existential risk, which, again, is the topic of your new book...

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