How To Avoid Destroying Humanity - Rob Reid | Modern Wisdom Podcast 346
Rob Reid is an entrepreneur, podcaster and an author.
The last 15 months have been a terrifying taster of just what a global crisis is like, except it wasn't lethal enough to be a threat to our long term survival - but just because this one wasn't, doesn't mean that more deadly existential risks aren't out there.
Expect to learn how synthetic biology might be the biggest risk to our survival, what we should have learned from 2020, whether Artificial General Intelligence is an immediate threat, Rob's opinion on my solution for saving civilisation, whether we should totally stop all technological development, if synbio is preventable, how we can avoid civilisation’s destruction through nuclear bombs and much more...
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#existentialrisk #syntheticbiology #pandemic
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00:00 Intro
01:19 The Thrill of Existential Risk
07:00 Why is Climate Change our Focus?
10:19 Humanity’s Close Calls
20:31 Democratising the Apocalypse
30:46 The Threat of Covid-19 and Pandemics
54:00 Is the Research Worth the Risk?
1:02:00 Would Moon Labs Reduce Risk?
1:08:18 Helpful Lessons from Covid-19
1:16:45 What if China Leaked Covid-19?
1:22:15 How to Prevent Destroying Humanity
1:37:47 Creating Silo Communities
1:46:54 Lesser-known Existential Risks
1:51:17 Making Existential Risk Sexier
2:01:50 How Can Individuals Help?
2:08:07 What’s Next for Rob?
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