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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How can you know how big the Islamist threat is? There could literally be a dirty bomb being shipped over to a major us city port as we speak, for all we know.
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You are correct that terrorism has a fat-tailed statistical distribution i.e. the chance of a catastrophic extreme is inordinately high even if the chance of any attack is low. But everyone's focused on that already. It's what people are not focused on that worries me, imho.
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