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Comment author: Dentin 27 April 2015 04:12:05PM 1 point [-]

I believe I used a fairly small number for civilizational collapse and extinction, on the order of ten to fifteen percent. I just don't find such doomsday scenarios that likely or plausible.

It may be that my background and upbringing have inured me to it - I've seen the end of the world not happen far too many times in my lifetime:

  • Communists failed to conquer everyone
  • There was no nuclear war/nuclear winter with russia
  • The UN new world order didn't enslave everyone
  • The end times due to the second coming of christ haven't happened at least a dozen times
  • y2k didn't cause problems
  • 2012 was just retarded
  • There has been no superflu
  • The stock market has become more stable over time, not less
  • Peak oil happened and nobody even noticed
  • There was no hard AI takeoff

There's probably more if I stop to think about it.

At the moment, I find biotech to be the most likely existential threat, with general civilization collapse and strong AI the next two major candidates.