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Chrkeller on 06 March 2024
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sc94597 said:
Soundwave said:

  

Even global warming, I'm not saying at all that it shouldn't be a concern and people shouldn't want to take steps to mitigate it, but human beings are not magically going to go extinct even if the global temperature rises by 3-4 degrees. Your ancestors survived the Ice Age when the climate of the planet was brutally far more different without any benefit of any modern technology. No working toilets, no insulated homes, no shopping mall to go buy a winter jacket and gloves from, no grocery store to get food from, no modern medicine, no understanding of mathematics or science really, we still survived. You're only here because they were able to survive that. 

The reason why climate change is an x-risk has to do with the second-order geo-political effects. 

The consequences of hundreds of millions to billions of people being displaced (Indonesia alone has nearly 150 million+ who would be displaced) can't be understated. 

Many people in developed countries go bonkers right now with very low rates of immigration and refugees. What happens when a fifth of the world has to move and likely aims for these wealthy, resource-hoarding countries? Combine that with low native birth rates in these countries, and scarce fresh water access, and you have the conditions for potential nuclear wars. 

All of this is a reality we know is coming if we don't do anything new. 

Climate change is an x-risk. 

Not too mention supply chain decimation and economic collapse.  

Putting AI as the top risk in today's world is one of the silliest positions I've ever seen.