Some Problems with “X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction”

Thomas Moynihan is an intellectual historian currently based at the Future of Humanity Institute. I read his book X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction with great interest, but to my disappointment found a very large number of mistakes throughout the manuscript (at least one on almost every page). To illustrate just how ubiquitous these mistakes are, here are a few from the first six pages of the book, which offers a “Timeline” of thinking about human extinction / existential risk.