And, most definitely, our evolutionary experience does not justify any claims about unstoppable progress to ever-greater capabilities: designating our species as Homo deus (Harari 2018) is as unrealistic as is the idea of approaching Singularity (Kurzweil 2017). Our fortunes remain circumscribed by many natural imperatives, and civilization remains vulnerable to catastrophic events, be it the Earth’s encounter with a large asteroid or, as the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic demonstrated, to recurrent viral diseases that in the age of global travel can engulf the planet in a matter of weeks (Bostrom
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