"I just think it may be, in fact, the case that nature is just a horror show. It is bad almost any place you could be born in the natural world, you're unlucky to be a rabbit and you're unlucky to be a fox. We're lucky to be humans, sort of, and we can dimly imagine how much luckier we might get in the future if we don't screw up."
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Sam Harris, "Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most", Future of Life Institute, 1 June 2020
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