Max Tegmark

But, you know, that doesn't particularly cheer people up in Sweden or other random countries that have nothing to do with it.

And, um, it, uh, I think it hasn't entered the mainstream, uh,

not understanding very much just like how bad this is most people especially a lot of people in decision-making positions still think of nuclear weapons as something that makes you powerful uh scary powerful they don't think of it as something where uh yeah just to within a percent or two you know we're all just gonna starve to death and um and starving to death is

Probably brings out the worst in people also.

When people are desperate like this, it's not... I've heard some people say that if that's what's going to happen, they'd rather be at ground zero and just get vaporized.

But...

But I think people underestimate the risk of this because they aren't afraid of Moloch.

They think, oh, it's just gonna be, because humans don't want this, so it's not gonna happen.

That's the whole point of Moloch, that things happen that nobody wanted.

Exactly.

And it applies to some of the things that people have gotten most upset with capitalism for also, right?

Where everybody was just kind of trapped.

It's not to see if some company does something that causes a lot of harm.

It's not that the CEO is a bad person, but she or he knew that all the other companies were doing this too.

So Moloch is...

As a formidable foe, I wish someone would make a good movie so we could see who the real enemy is.

We're not fighting against each other.

Moloch makes us fight against each other.

That's what Moloch's superpower is.

The hope here is any kind of technology or other mechanism that lets us instead realize