tszzl: only AI grey goo could outdo Earth's own mass extinctions
tszzl · x · 2026-09-07
ML researcher tszzl, after watching geology documentaries, reflects that nature destroyed most life on Earth roughly five times — even detonating all nukes wouldn't match the damage Earth has regularly inflicted on itself. The only Holocene-era threat that could is AI grey goo. That perspective, he says, is oddly calming.
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