
#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Family Paradox
i'm just curious to know what's your favorite answer to the family paradox. My favorite one in terms of kind of uh aesthetic payload is won by stansel of lem for his book "The great silence" The author believes that as an intelligence becomes more advanced it manipulates its environment and this causes a collapse between artificial and natural matter. i love these aspects of science fiction where ideas are reintegrated through the backdoor, he says.
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