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Ask HN: What are the 3 biggest threats to our civilization?
I think it's:
1. AI being used in a malicious way
2. Global warming
I'm not sure about the third one.
What do you think?
- markus_zhang 5y agoThere is only one: the imbalance of wealth distribution.
- kleer001 5y agoThose that less productive should be compensated with more than those who are highly productive?
- dyeje 5y ago1. Climate change 2. Nuclear war I can't think of a credible third.
- johntdaly 5y ago1. racism/xenophobia/sexism 2. societal externality costs for industry (like global warming) 3. social media
- thesuperbigfrog 5y ago1. Stupid people 2. Greed 3. Tolerating corruption
- snyena 5y agoOverpopulation
- kleer001 5y ago1. Entropy (time taking its toll) in terms of corruption at every possible level of material, culture, liberty, biology, political. 2. Inter-generational discounting (you can't make the next generation care about what you cared about) driving a lack of upkeep for essential yet invisible infrastructure. 3. Threats from space: Coronal mass ejection, cometary impact, meteor impact. IMHO neither AI nor Global warming are as much a threat to human civilization. They could really suck, but they're not going to send us back to the bronze age or extinct us. We're pretty damn clever and resilient.
- ed_at_work 5y agoMisinformation for one of them. Previous US elections, and now COVID, have highlighted how misinformation is both extremely potent/viral, and literally deadly.
- mikewarot 5y agoPhysics used in the service of war/terrorism Biology used in the service of war/terrorism Rent seeking of the elite
- gaws 5y ago1. Greed 2. Climate change 3. Giving power to stupid people