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#512 - Will MacAskill - How Long Could Humanity Continue For?

Modern Wisdom

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Nick Bostram's Vulnerable World Hypothesis

Nick bostram's hypothesis is that there could be some technology in our future that gives the power to destroy the world to basically everyone in the world. A ca, immediately. The main reason is that, am, we just band technology all the time. We could cloane humans now if we wanted to, and we choose not to. And then secondly, technology is often used for defensive measures as well as offensive. In general, i think they are vulnerable world hypothesiss. It's possible that that will occur in the future.

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