Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most
Human civilization increasingly has the potential both to improve the lives of everyone and to completely destroy everything.
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Human civilization increasingly has the potential both to improve the lives of everyone and to completely destroy everything.
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Progress in synthetic biology and genetic engineering promise to bring advancements in human health sciences by curing disease, augmenting human capabilities, and even reversing aging.
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Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Essential to our assessment of risk and ability to plan for the future is
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Neither Yuval Noah Harari nor Max Tegmark need much in the way of introduction.
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Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Just a year ago we released a two part episode titled An Overview of
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Listen to Episode Here Show Notes The global spread of COVID-19 has put tremendous stress on humanity’s social, political,
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Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Toby Ord’s “The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity" has
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Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Lethal autonomous weapons represent the novel miniaturization and integration of modern AI and robotics
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Listen to Episode Here Show Notes As with the agricultural and industrial revolutions before it, the intelligence revolution currently underway
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Listen to Episode Here Show Notes From Max Tegmark's Life 3.0 to Stuart Russell's Human
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Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Our perceptions of reality are based on the physics of interactions ranging from millimeters
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Listen to Episode Here Show Notes In the 1984 book Reasons and Persons, philosopher Derek Parfit asks the reader to
View episodeNo matter your level of experience or seniority, there is something you can do to help us ensure the future of life is positive.