The wackos need to be fought, but their strength is overstated by the media for business reasons. Most academics are not postmodernists, most Muslims are not Islamists, most right-wingers are not Nazis. We have to watch them, but far bigger dangers lie in more unexpected places.
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You need to elaborate on that last line. It’s half past 5 and I’m barely awake but you’ve got me intrigued ;)
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It's all rather boring really, which is why it's dangerous -- the true threats are not interesting enough to make the headlines. The automation apocalypse, emergent AI, climate change, antimicrobial resistance, food shortages. These are very possible doomsday scenarios.
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The problem is not so much that they're boring but that they're now too cliched and "fanciful" to take seriously, so newspapers don't dedicate the deserved space to them, instead focusing on more relatable scenarios. The news that sells is not the news that's actually important.
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