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The Next World War: The new age of global conflict and the fight to stop it

by Peter Apps (Goodreads Author)

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“compassion, skepticism, and uncertainty rather than on dogma,”
― Adam Gopnik, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

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“Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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“Smith believed not that markets make men free but that free men move toward markets. The difference is small but decisive; it is most of what we mean by humanism.”
― Adam Gopnik, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

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“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

tags: ai, future, technology

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“If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of future generations; enough to end disease, poverty and injustice forever; enough to create heights of flourishing unimaginable today. And if we could learn to reach out further into the cosmos, we could have more time yet: trillions of years, to explore billions of worlds. Such a lifespan places humanity in its earliest infancy. A vast and extraordinary adulthood awaits.”
― Toby Ord, The Precipice

tags: big-history, existential-risk, future-of-humanity

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