"‘Apocalypticism’, or the belief that the end times are imminent, is of course nothing new: people have warned that the end is nigh for millennia, and in fact many New Testament scholars believe that Jesus himself expected the world to end during his own lifetime. But the situation today is fundamentally different than in the past."

"[T]he crucial fact that longtermists miss is that technology is far more likely to cause our extinction before this distant future event than to save us from it." ?