1/30/2023 0 Comments Death note msg tone![]() ![]() The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. Episode 1 - "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean" ![]() Note that Cosmos was co-written with Ann Druyan. Michael Nielsen has also written some fantastic 'working notes' on Cosmos. The website for Toby Ord’s book The Precipice contains a list of quotations pertaining to existential risk, which I partially borrowed from here. You can find a slightly more comprehensive version here. I’ve tried collecting some quotations that stand out to me from Sagan’s work, though I’ve only read a minority of his published writing. In particular, I think he captures many ideas related to longtermism and existential risk as powerfully as anyone writing today. Sagan’s words were often prescient and always poetic. He was also part of the team of researchers who first discovered the possibility of nuclear winter, and so became a leading voice of concern about the use of nuclear weapons. He organised the first physical messages to space (the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record), presented the hugely popular TV series Cosmos (1980), and considered humanity’s long-term future in Pale Blue Dot (1994). Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was an astronomer and science communicator. ![]()
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