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I appreciate your comments, but I seriously doubt political correctness, Islam, or the left is going to eliminate humans from the face of the earth

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Sep 3, 2018

Which of the following categories do you think presents the greatest existential threat to humanity?

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5:05 PM · Sep 4, 2018

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Very few people understand the difference between a 'global catastrophic risk' that might kill 98% of humanity but might allow survivors to bounce back and survive for millions more years, v. a true 'existential risk' that kills 100% of humanity, forever, within a few decades.

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And climate change isn’t going to wipe out everybody.

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Yes, but what about her emails 🙄

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Well Stalin and Mao did a lot of human eliminatin'

@wastetime

Sep 4, 2018

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@Aella_Girl

I seriously doubt the always laughably wrong malthusians are correct this time

@gabbymcnabb@spore.social

@GabbyMcNabb

Sep 4, 2018

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@Aella_Girl

🤣🤣🤣 oh dear, sad you have to articulate that

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Your categories actually don't account for known extinction drivers - geological and cosmic disasters. A full on eruption of Yellowstone, for example, could easily snuff us out. So could a sufficiently large meteor strike.

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You don’t see the demise of Western reason and philosophy (including capitalism) as an existential threat? You do realize when the same thing happened to Rome, there was 1,000 of dark ages, right?

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Effective altruism, on the other hand, should have been included among the risks.