I've always thought it was a poor choice to have that phrase stand for "threat to continuation of sth" when the meaning of existential, outside of a very narrow circle, was firmly established as relating to smoking unfiltereds in the alley during your breaks at the record store
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But the paternalism does make sense. You won't appreciate the deep and vast forces we're trying to protect you from, so you don't need to understand what we're saying
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an existential threat is that which not only forces you to confront that you could choose to throw yourself off the balcony, but that on a societal level you're climbing onto the railing
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transhumanism is frantically trying to build a jetpack while this is happening
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I mean that kind of is what it means
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