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In this episode the team discuss existential risk, also known as global catastrophic risk. Climate change is in the current zeitgeist and the lads talk about it, amongst others such as meteor impacts, hostile AI, nuclear holocaust and flu pandemics. Impact, time and probability also play a huge part of whether an issue should be classified as an existential risk and if it should be talked about as such. Both had a lot of interest in this topic and hope you enjoy it as much as they did.
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