X-Risk Debate: Should Humanity Take Big AI Risks to Dodge Extinction?
tszzl · x · 2026-09-11
- A user argues humanity isn't extinction-proof anyway — asteroids or worse will eventually hit — so taking major AI risks to hedge cosmic-scale threats might be rational, pressing @tszzl on specifics.
- @tszzl disagrees: there are risk tradeoffs that make sense, but on a hundred-million-year scale, impacts or runaway volcanism give us time — no need to rush.
- A representative clash between AI accelerationist and precautionary framings of existential risk.
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