Podcast host Tim Ferris advocates an exercise he calls “fear-setting” — seriously considering the worst-case outcome. What would you do if the worst case actually happened? Is it as bad as you’d imagined? The phrase “existential risk” is trending in pop culture because of the dangers of AI. But even without AI, humans already have many existential risks: nuclear war, climate change, natural and engineered pathogens, political polarization, fascism, territorial disputes, terrorism,...
