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🗓️ 7 July 2016
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Today I’m joined by existential risk expert Phil Torres! Phil wrote a book called The End, in which he detailed out several different ways that humanity might become extinct. Phil has written several fascinating articles for a few different online publications, and he’s here to talk about some of the ideas he has explored in … Continue reading AS256: Super AI and Terrorism, with Phil Torres
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0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 256 and I'm your host Thomas Smith |
0:36.0 | All right got a nice long action-packed episode for you today as a result not much time for me to do too much Dilly Dallying here. |
0:44.0 | I better get right over to that interview. |
0:47.0 | Joining me back for a second time is Phil Torres. You'll remember him, he wrote |
0:57.4 | the end. We had a nice long interesting discussion a few months back about that and he's back now his |
1:05.3 | website is risks and religion.org he's written a couple of several but we're |
1:11.1 | gonna we'll see what we can cover today articles |
1:13.8 | interesting articles on a few different topics that we're gonna discuss how you |
1:16.9 | doing fill great thanks so much for having new on thanks so much for coming on so |
1:21.0 | there's a lot of stuff I want to get to. We'll see how it |
1:23.4 | ends up. I don't know that we'll get to all of it. That's such as life. But you've |
1:27.9 | written a few from a couple different angles about terrorism on one hand the idea that existential risks |
1:36.4 | which are your specialty of course and by the way I have to say the world has an |
1:41.5 | end and since you came on so I think you were wrong right is |
1:44.8 | that you're coming on to say I was wrong the world didn't end right is that this is |
1:49.3 | no I think because I was on we managed to secure yeah crisis averted is that what you're saying yeah I would |
1:58.8 | attribute yeah our continued existence to that okay so this isn't an apology tour like, |
2:04.0 | sorry, I thought the world was gonna end, |
2:05.9 | but I was wrong. |
2:06.8 | Because I haven't seen any super volcanoes |
2:08.8 | and I kind of did want to see one |
2:10.3 | because they're kind of cool, but. Yeah, yeah yeah I mean it would be pretty spectacular but yeah nothing |
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