
#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Impersonal Approach to Physics
Jesse: I like this idea of there being a kind of shift away to more impersonal ways of thinking about physics. Can you say something about why that is significant particularly with respect to thinking about the existential risk and future of humanity? Jesse: The thing that shocked me very early on when I was embarking on what became this project was one of the very first instances of someone talking about the extinction in humanity.
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