Odds of just one in six do not sound great, even in a simple game of chance. But if this were the probability that humanity itself could be wiped out, you might say we were in a fix. Yet here we are, argues philosopher Toby Ord in The Precipice, a new book about the bleak survival chances we now face as a species.
僅六分之一的勝算聽起來并不理想,即使對一個簡單的碰運氣的游戲來說。但如果這是人類滅絕的可能性,你也許會說我們陷入了困境。然而,哲學家托比?奧德(Toby Ord)在新書《懸崖》(The Precipice)中指出,我們的處境的確如此。這本書講述了作為一個物種,我們如今面臨的慘淡生存機會。
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