Lately I've been thinking that perhaps our technological progress might be deterministically leading us to our own destruction (or a major and irrecoverable reg

Lately I've been thinking that perhaps our technological progress might be deterministically leading us to our own destruction (or a major and irrecoverable regression) through some kind of unavoidable dynamic evolving. Like a combination of nuclear weapons, biotechnology or AI with a tragedy of the commons type situation derived from the same competitive social nature that is required for us (or any other society) to develop technologically. Perhaps even the most basic property of life, the self-preserving tendency of a self-preserving structure once it randomly emerges, can lead with mathematical precision to its own destruction a few billion years later, regardless of the specifics and despite the profoundly complex mechanisms evolved in-between. Perhaps long-lived advanced civilizations are not possible at all, and can be seen as a weird transient natural phenomenon; starting with hydrothermal vents and ending with billions of odd etched silicon fossils.