AI risk thread: nuclear and pandemics fall short, grey goo is the real extinction path
tszzl · x · 2026-09-10
@eccentric1ty argues human extinction is hard: the "respectable" AI risk pathways in RSP/preparedness reports — nuclear or pandemics — wouldn't get close. The fast path is nanotech, though a human-scale industrial explosion of self-replicating robot factories could also do it. tszzl responds that any self-replicator could theoretically kill us but would leave lots of time to respond. A substantive, contrarian thread on actual extinction mechanics.
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