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#33 - Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war

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Is There a Risk of a Nuclear War?

i think we should also pay back to society by sharing our data. And that might need to change the rules of how we do medical trials. A common argument that i hear when i say that i'm concerned about nuclear war is, it's been about 70 years since we invented nuclear weapons and there hasn't been a war yet. But you've written in a paper called the anthropic shadow observation, selection effects and human extinction risks,. That says maybe that argumentis not quite as strong as it seems. So we can start with big astroid impacts instead.

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