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I think the probability of humans eventually going extinct is 1. Avoiding it requires almost unimaginable levels of cooperation and technical advances.
by sokoloff 3y ago
I think the probability of humans eventually going extinct is 1. Avoiding it requires almost unimaginable levels of cooperation and technical advances.
- boringg 3y agoWell thats not a difficult position to take. The difficult take is when the timing would be. The sun is eventually going to explode rendering our solar system uninhabitable though that is a long time away from now and we have many other massive risks to humanity in the meantime.
- babyshake 3y agoThe end of human civilization as we know it doesn't mean extinction. Why is extinction unavoidable?
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWhy does extinction matter? If we lose civilization now, we'll be stuck at pre-industrial levels possibly for geological timescales, as we've mined and burned all the high-density energy sources you can get at without already being a high-tech industrial society.
- ben_w 3y agoI don't think that would necessarily limit us. Windmills and water mills can be made with wood, stone, and the small quantities of iron that pre-industrial societies could produce.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoSure, but it's hard to move from that to industrial production without having a high-density energy source (like coal) available.
- lobocinza 3y agoEntropy