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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.

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