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51. Max Tegmark on Why Treating Humanity Like a Child Will Save Us All

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Inevitability of Technology for Slaughter

Sally Kohn: Almost inevitably, there will be technology which is cheap and lethal. She says we can make sure that suppliers of these things have responsibility to know who all their large customers are. We've done this very successfully with plastic explosives and all sorts of other high risk things,. And it's ultimately economics. It's not in the national security interests for the powerful nation states that you get a new weapon o mass destruction.

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