Dwarkesh

That fast?

It's, like, become so central to your work?

Have you used deep research?

I don't know how long it's been around.

It's not that much longer.

Yeah.

And then I want to touch on your next book that isn't out yet, The Last Animal, which

One question I have is, basically, how worried should we be about extinction, given that we're on the cusp of technologies which will make it possible for us to reanimate many lost species?

I assume if you have their genome or something, our descendants will be able to make more woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers and so forth.

So...

Should we discount the value of endangered species as a result?

I think that's an excellent note to close on.

Just to plug one more time, we've been discussing plagues upon the earth, which is the history of disease going back through the Neolithic to modern times.

Fate of Rome, which discusses the plagues and this history of the Roman Empire, considering climate and biology.

We also discussed, what was the name of the book on slavery?

Slavery in the Late Roman World.

Slavery in the Late Roman World.

Yep.

And the upcoming book is The Last Animal.

The Last Animal.