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Summary of threats facing humanity (imgur.com)
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I asked GPT-4 for a list of the most important threats to human civilization, their likelihood, and why they were considered threats.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of these, I feel like climate change, a meteor, and nuclear war are really the only viable existential threats, and even climate change will most likely not destroy humanity wholly, although what's left may not be worth living in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, people are sleeping on biodiversity loss. That one is going to come out of "nowhere" even though there are fewer birds in the sky now than when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes to me even a 70% chance of it happening seems low. Seems to me like the probability of it is 100%