that's not what that means. words mean things. they mean the things that they mean instead of the things that they don't meanhttps://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1090091453341155328 …
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"our"? Reference classes matter. Sea level rise is plausibly a threat that could make NYC stop existing. AI is plausibly a threat that could make humanity stop existing. It's still not existential - it won't cause false vacuum collapse, so existence continues.
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an existential threat isn't necessarily a threat to existence in general, but it's a threat to the existence of something defined by context, in this case i guess human civilization or the usa
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