Perhaps humanity’s greatest extinction risk is not climate change or rogue AI, but people losing interest in procreation due to finding fulfilment in the endless phantasmagoria of technogenic distractions.
I wrote a short piece about this a while ago: runaway VR consumerism may drive most intelligence species extinct throughout the universe... https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58e2a71bf7e0ab3ba886cea3/t/58e949b2d482e94e7fcc3996/1491683764266/2007+fermi+paradox+edge+piece.pdf …
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Not the religious!
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