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Brain in a Vat

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Accelerating Climate Change, Is the Best Thing for Humanity?

Jeffrey Toobin: The best way to get us off planet is to make things kind of unbearable on earth. He says we should fundamentally be in the business of maximizing happiness and minimizing suffering for all sentient beings from now until the end of time. And if we can avoid these threats, if we can find our way through them, we have about a billion years, or five billion years, before the sun iis going to itself make this planet uninhabitable. If we can just survive asteroids and comets, then we have plenty of time to leave ourselves at some point," Toobin says.

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