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Grey goo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo AI paperclips https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ai-and-paperclip-pro
by nytesky 2y ago
Grey goo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
AI paperclips
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ai-and-paperclip-problem https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ai-and-paperclip-problem
Prions getting into food supply
Nuclear holocaust.
I’m definitely not sleeping tonight. I can see why Gen Z is thinking not to have kids…
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoEnvironmental collapse due to climate change is way, way more likely than any of those.
- Jerrrry 2y agoAnd Nuclear incidents caused by climate/ai extremists are way more likely than those. Environmental collapse is a convenient, very portable goalpost though.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoLol, no activist is going to cause a nuclear event. It's just easier to accept that than the fact that we're ruining the biosphere.
- praptak 2y agoAnd a full environmental collapse is not even strictly necessary to end civilization. If the climate perturbation is large enough it will cause a mass migration and an economic disaster, either of which is enough to cause a war. Can humanity peacefully deal with things like half of China becoming uninhabitable by humans? Dunno but if I had to pit humanity against this or the mirror bacteria I'd choose the latter.
- Terr_ 2y agoI find it slightly heartening to consider that all biological life is already a long-running Gray Goo apocalypse, and one of the inheritors of that legacy are towering trillion-unit megastructures with eldritch hiveminds were call "people."