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#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk

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The Importance of Value in the World

"i've changed my mind recently i'm thinking that that might be one of the most kind of important discoveries that humanity's ever made and i want to do a lot more work to figure out why," he says. "It just struck me very recently how absolutely significant  it just is part of this wider thing of the realization that yeah value is mutable and could be minimized and maximized" 'There are histories of you know there are some histories out there of uh you know what inspired kind of you know Bentham and Mill' adds Hawking.

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