Hello friends, welcome back. My guest today is Thomas Moynerhan. He's a historian and an author and we're talking about the history of existential risk.

Humans may only have had the ability to destroy ourselves for the last hundred years or so, but thinkers have been hypothesizing about the potential end of existence for thousands of years.

Today Thomas explains the history of how humanity came to realize its potential for extinction.

As far as I'm concerned, existential risk is the topic that no one is talking about, which the entire planet should be focused on, and getting a backward facing view that actually gives us the foundations of how we've arrived at our understanding now is super interesting.

I thought, well, what's the point of looking back given that the existential risks that we're encountering will be in the future?

But actually we can learn an awful lot. We learn about the principle of plentitude and about conceptual inertia, tons of really interesting insights from intellectual history, which is basically the history of ideas.

And that's what Thomas looks at. He's awesome. I really hope that you enjoy this.

And if you are interested in getting into more of this topic, we give you some great book recommendations throughout the episode.

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