350 - Existential Risk

Humanity has always been exposed to potentially catastrophic risks that might endanger the continued existence of humanity. Asteroid impacts or supervolcano eruptions come to mind. But since about the invention of the atomic bomb, humanity has been able to wipe itself out, adding self-made existential risks to the natural ones. Oxford philosopher Toby Ord argues in his book The Precipice that those risks are much more likely than the natural ones. In this episode we explore this idea with him, and also discuss what we should do about this realization.

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350 - Existential Risk is an episode from podcast (en) – omega tau science & engineering podcast by Markus Voelter.

This episode is 02:40:06 long.

This episode was published on Aug 22, 2020.

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