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Existential risk, as defined by Nate Hagens, is a risk that could result in the extinction of humanity, or the permanent and drastic destruction of the capability for people to live in a meaningful way. It may be the result of technological disasters, extreme climate shifts, pandemics, natural disasters, or any combination of these factors. In many cases, the consequences of such events are hard to predict and even harder to mitigate, making existential risks particularly perilous.

Daniel Schmachtenberger “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness” | The Great Simplification #05 52,903

how do you manage to hold all this existential risk and the depth of the implications of the conversation we just

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Sensemaking, Uncertainty, and Purpose” | The Great Simplification #31 22,610

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Herman Daly: “Toward an Ecological Economics” | The Great Simplification #06 8,242

Tomas Björkman: "Metamodernism and The Future" | The Great Simplification #48 7,827

yes, yes. and again, it might be easier to deploy psychological defenses to the existential risk and threat of climate change, for example, than if there was actually an alien space ship there.

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right. so listeners of this show know that i've had conversations with daniel schmachtenberger, who's a technology existential risk expert, and tristan harris, who is a social media polarization expert, and aza raskin,

Martin Scheringer: "The Growing Threat from Chemical Pollution" 5,945

have tens of dozens of people working in your sector. it seems to be just widely unrecognized as a kind of existential risk in coming decades. so i'm just wondering, if this goes unchecked and if it's a slow ticking time bomb of the

DJ White: "Ocean Effectivism" | The Great Simplification #51 3,264

we are actively precluding them. there are other books in the news, what we owe the future, macaskill, and nick bostrom's existential risk, which are talking about a trillion humans could live in outer space in the future. but they have the same

Joan Diamond: "From Kool-aid to Lemonade" | The Great Simplification #28 2,406

it. i believe if i recall correctly, you wrote papers on it when you were younger. how did that exposure or did that exposure contribute to you spending a career on existential risk collapse, nuclear threats because you were exposed to at a young age and you had already psychologically