The Astronomical Consequences Of An Existential Catastrophe

The future could contain astronomical amounts of value, so understanding and preventing existential risks should be a top priority for humanity.For most of human history, thinking about the future of humanity has been largely bound up with religious beliefs about the end of the world. Myths about messianic figures, bodily resurrections, and apocalyptic battles shaped the ideas that many people had about what the culmination of history and transformation of the earth would look like.This began to