#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Evolution of Convergence
The planet of the apes hypothesis is Charles Lineweaver's idea that we can't be confident about a returning kind of human level intelligence should we disappear. These early debates in evolution about progressivism and orthogeneticism have modulated into a debate around convergence and contingency. The general drift of history is you know further away from the idea of anthropoids everywhere, he says.
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