Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human history' like this one

Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by hashbig on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:07AM (#24321503)

Here Chomsky's biggest concern is a nuclear war, for Elon Musk it's AI taking over the world. Almost every culture has its own version of this story (usually religious) about the world heading to a final event, and a new world order emerging thereafter. We humans are obsessed with stories of the end of the world.

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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by timbuckley on Sunday August 30, 2020 @07:54PM (#24327083)

And for the first time in history, since the middle of the previous century, we have some capacity of ending the entirety of human life on the planet, with only a few hands involved.

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