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Daniel Immerwahr: “In the long run, we are creatures of our environments to an almost embarrassing degree, flourishing where circumstances permit and dying where they don’t.”
The proton “has been humbling to humans. Every time you think you kind of have a handle on it, it throws you some curveballs.”
Tyler Cowen: “Hardly anyone associated with Future Fund saw the existential risk to…Future Fund, even though they were as close to it as one could possibly be. I am thus skeptical about their ability to predict existential risk more generally, and for systems that are far more complex and also far more distant.”
