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An existential risk is typically considered any risk that has the potential to eliminate all of humanity or, at the very least, kill large swaths of the global
by kordlessagain 3y ago
An existential risk is typically considered any risk that has the potential to eliminate all of humanity or, at the very least, kill large swaths of the global population.
Being controlled by software restricts choice, while being wiped out by software eliminates choice altogether.
- bdavbdav 3y agoI suspect you may be being a little too literal here. It is an existential risk to the software development house.
- kordlessagain 3y agoI agree and nothing I wrote conflicts with that assertion. The point is that it depends on the individual's perspective and the complexity of the issue at hand. Restricting choice is often an advantage because it saves us time in exchange for the risk of being (company, individual or humanity) wiped out by an exception to the rule.
- NikolaNovak 3y agoHmm typically I've heard the phrase existential risk alongside a qualifying / local scope phrase. So something may be an existential risk to this company or this endeavour. Only a small fraction of usage of existential risk are globally scoped to humanity.
- lolpython 3y agoIt’s an existential risk to a business’s survival