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.
仅六分之一的胜算听起来并不理想,即使对一个简单的碰运气的游戏来说。但如果这是人类灭绝的可能性,你也许会说我们陷入了困境。然而,哲学家托比•奥德(Toby Ord)在新书《悬崖》(The Precipice)中指出,我们的处境的确如此。这本书讲述了作为一个物种,我们如今面临的惨淡生存机会。
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