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Existential Risk
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We urgently need to find ways to push scientific and technological progress in directions that are likely to bring us good, and away from those directions that spell doom. This cannot be done if we stick to the erroneous view that all such progress is good for us. The first thing we need is to be able to distinguish those advances whose potential is most in the direction of prosperity and human flourishing from those whose potential is more in the direction of destruction and doom, and we need t
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― Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
― Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
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Existential risks all have the ability to defy sustainability. There is no sustainability without mitigating existential risks.
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― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
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