I asked GPT-4 for a list of the most important threats to human civilization, their likelihood, and why they were considered threats.

GPT’s output is also pasted into the comments.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    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]
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      32 years ago

      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]OP
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        22 years ago

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