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The End Of The World with Josh Clark

Embracing Catastrophe

The End Of The World with Josh Clark

iHeartPodcasts

Technology, Science, Society & Culture

4.96.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We humans are our own worst enemies when it comes to what it will take to deal with existential risks. We are loaded with cognitive biases, can’t coordinate on a global scale, and see future generations as freeloaders. Seriously, are we going to survive?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Ellie Kemper and I'm Scott Eckert and we're here to talk to you about the things we love on our new podcast born to love.

0:09.0

I can tell you about something I love this week Scott.

0:12.0

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0:14.0

For my own mind, you're not talking pool noodle.

0:17.0

Oh my gosh! No! Thank you for terrifying!

0:20.0

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0:31.0

I'm Bridget Todd and for the last three years I've been answering questions about technology, the internet and how it shows up in all of our lives.

0:38.0

On my award-winning podcast there are no girls on the internet but it feels like we're in kind of a weird moment when it comes to tech and even I don't know where we're headed.

0:47.0

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0:55.0

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1:01.0

Hello America, Danielle Moody here. I am an unapologetic black queer woman who isn't afraid to use my voice loudly and proudly to stand up for what's right.

1:11.0

For the last five years it has been my mission to ring a daily alarm and make America woke.

1:17.0

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1:24.0

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1:32.0

It will conceive physics experiments, reckless experiments of viruses, unfriendly super intelligent AI, dealing with each one of these will be a quagmire onto itself.

1:49.0

But remember existential risks are like nothing we've ever encountered before.

1:55.0

We humans haven't been prepared by millennia of evolution like we have for other disasters.

2:01.0

We're not equipped out of the box to deal with the existential risks that loom ahead in our near future.

2:07.0

In fact, it's almost as if we're wired not to be able to deal with them properly.

2:13.0

And the more we look into it, it turns out the question of whether we'll be able to navigate our existential risks to a safe future is actually the same question as whether we'll be able to overcome ourselves.

2:26.0

But for the moment, let's leave all that and go inside your body instead.

2:33.0

You have tiny invisible robots moving through your bloodstream.

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