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Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha... by p-e-w on Monday July 03, 2023 @12:27AM (#36568840)
> Climate change -will- kill us if we do nothing.

Horseshit. There is not a single scientific model that predicts human extinction from climate change. Parts of humanity, yes. All of humanity, no chance.

There a plenty of models that predict human extinction from AGI.

Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha... by jpgvm on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:23AM (#36570248)
Climate change will kill millions in the next ~40-60 years and if course isn't corrected 100s of millions will follow. Seems like it will do a pretty damn good job of killing us even if it fails to kill all of us.

I agree AGI would be horrendously dangerous and if achieved has a higher chance of complete extinction. However, we don't have AGI and it's still not clear we ever will.

Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha... by Qwertious on Monday July 03, 2023 @06:12AM (#36570932)
I don't think it's likely, but climate change could easily wipe out humanity by exacerbating pre-existing geopolitical tensions. For instance, Pakistan and India famously share a river, and the treaty that governs its water rights was written with the assumption that the river wouldn't reduce in output. A sufficiently severe drought could cause a war between India and Pakistan, and both countries have nukes.

You could dispute that WW3 would cause human extinction, and while I'm not remotely certain of it I think that WW3 could cause extinction, if there's a sufficient combination of 1) climate collapse and 2) worldwide economic collapse that makes high-tech systems impossible to sustain.