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#Factory farming | #Factory farming | ||
#Existential risk - nukes, AI, geoengineering (climate), pandemics | #Existential risk - nukes, AI, geoengineering (climate), pandemics | ||
##Pandemic is not an existential risk. | ##Pandemic is not an existential risk. There is the concept of Threshold Population in parasitology. | ||
##Nukes. At most wipes out about 1/2 the global population. See [[All the Bombs]]. | |||
##Geoengineering - hydrogen economy is nigh, there is a case for [[Distributed Market Substitution] immediately. | |||
##AI - this magnifies human ignorance, making it quite dangerous - prior to a cultural shift towards essential ethics | |||
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Latest revision as of 15:55, 12 April 2023
Does begin with ethical progress.
Takes 3 issues:
- Disease
- Factory farming
- Existential risk - nukes, AI, geoengineering (climate), pandemics
- Pandemic is not an existential risk. There is the concept of Threshold Population in parasitology.
- Nukes. At most wipes out about 1/2 the global population. See All the Bombs.
- Geoengineering - hydrogen economy is nigh, there is a case for [[Distributed Market Substitution] immediately.
- AI - this magnifies human ignorance, making it quite dangerous - prior to a cultural shift towards essential ethics