Dev with a fever shrugs at '10% extinction chance in a decade' claims
kevinkern · x · 2026-09-10
Developer kevinkern posted that he woke up with a massive fever, read that humanity apparently has "a 10% chance of going extinct in the next decade," and went back to sleep. A deadpan jab at how routine AI-extinction probability claims have become.
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