“Suppose you're playing against a really strong player and you're up a queen, and then you have three hours left on the chess clock. The one way you can still lose this one game is if you start rushing your moves. You somehow act like you have only one minute left on the clock and then you blunder this piece, you blunder that piece, and suddenly you're lost. I feel that this is exactly what humanity is doing right now.”

okay, but suppose you're playing against a really strong player and you're up a queen, and then you have three hours left on the chess clock. The one way you can still lose this one game is if you start rushing your moves. You somehow act like you have only one minute left on the clock and then you blunder this piece, you blunder that piece, and suddenly you're lost. I feel that this is exactly what humanity is doing right now. We've learned after being on the planet for hundreds of thousands of years that we have a one game. We don't have to worry about getting eaten by tigers or starving to death or having a life expectancy of 29 years because through studying science and technology, we've become so much more empowered that we can be the captains of our own ship. I see the whole human history as growing empowerment…