Howdy friends, welcome back. My guest today is Mara Cortona, who is the executive director

of the Astropolitics Institute and the founder of Nuonaut. The world is going to end eventually.

For most of us, that concern is far away, but the smartest minds in the world of existential risk

put the likelihood that we survive the next century at one in three. With this hugely terrifying

statistic hanging over our heads, why is no one focusing on the big problems?

Pooly-aligned artificial general intelligence, biotechnology and other risks are all

significantly more dangerous than global warming or the 2020 election, but get paid far less lip

service. And today, Mara is going to put forth her case about why she thinks that that disparity

is happening and also to hopefully try and alert you to exactly where the main existential risks lie.

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