tszzl: Nuclear and pandemics won't cause extinction — only self-replicating 'grey goo' could
tszzl · x · 2026-09-10
AI researcher tszzl argues human extinction is hard: the usual risk scenarios in RSP/preparedness reports, like nuclear war or pandemics, wouldn't come close. The only credible path, he says, is grey goo — a parallel family of self-replicators.
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