#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk

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Introduction

00:00 • 4min

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The Importance of Intellectual History

03:37 • 2min

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The Path to Intellectual History

05:14 • 6min

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The Modern Understanding of Existential Risk

11:13 • 3min

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The Importance of Keeping Humanity Alive

14:40 • 3min

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The Principle of Plenitude

17:16 • 4min

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The Indestructibility of Value

21:21 • 4min

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The Influence of the Copernican Revolution on Existential Risk

25:48 • 3min

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The Evolution of Self-Esteem

28:50 • 3min

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The Origins of Uniformitarianism

32:06 • 3min

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The Origins of the Inorganic Metaphor

35:09 • 5min

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The Evolution of Probability in the Age of Mathematical Forecasts

40:35 • 3min

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The Pros and Cons of the Enlightenment

43:39 • 3min

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The Importance of Deep Time

46:17 • 4min

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The Impersonal Approach to Physics

49:57 • 4min

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The Evolution of Darwinism

53:52 • 4min

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The Evolution of Humanity

58:02 • 2min

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The Evolution of Convergence

59:46 • 4min

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The Myth of Human Intelligence

01:04:13 • 5min

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The Evolution of the Parasitic Barnacle

01:09:10 • 5min

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The Existential Risk of Negative Utilitarianism

01:14:35 • 3min

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The Emergence of Existential Risk

01:17:47 • 6min

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The Fermi Paradox and the Nuclear Bomb

01:23:45 • 3min

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The Family Paradox in the 60s

01:26:23 • 5min

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The Family Paradox

01:31:22 • 4min

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The Uncertainty of the Universe

01:34:58 • 2min

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The Importance of Cosmic Loneliness

01:37:25 • 2min

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The Importance of Existential Hope in the Future of X-Resks

01:39:33 • 5min

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The Importance of Existential Risk in Science Fiction

01:44:55 • 3min

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The Importance of Intellectual History in Action

01:48:09 • 5min

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The Inductivist Argument

01:52:56 • 4min

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The Prospect for Progress in Ethics

01:57:00 • 4min

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The Future of Moral Progress

02:00:30 • 5min

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The Importance of History in Artificial Intelligence

02:05:15 • 2min

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The Science and Philosophy of the Fermi Paradox

02:07:11 • 3min

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The Importance of Value in the World

02:10:24 • 2min

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Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk

02:12:20 • 2min