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If you compare three outcomes: piece, a nuclear war that kills 99 percent of the world's population, and a nuclear war that kills a hundred percent, I think there's a much bigger difference between the second and the third than the second and the first. And that's because I do care greatly about ending humanity.
I wonder whether, in Williams's phrase, it's all been worth it. So many people up until now have had such wretched lives that it's not clear that it would have been much worse if they never existed.
What's critical is that we could blow it. We could end it. There are many ways in which human history might be ended soon, probably nuclear war. If the human race ended, that wouldn't be worse for anyone. That wouldn't be significantly bad at all because there's no one for whom it would be bad.