John: disease is the most likely cause of human extinction, ahead of AI and war (2018)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2018-01-16) · owner: John
Answering a viewer's question in 2018, John ranked disease as the most likely cause of human extinction, ahead of AI and an extinction-level war.
About: Human extinction, infectious disease, artificial intelligence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-16 | predicted | John, who thinks about it a fair amount, ranks disease as the most likely way for humans to go extinct, then AI or a post-human species, then an extinction-level war. (hedged) | My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY 00:02:57 |
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- 2018-01-16 · My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY — John still thinks microorganisms are most likely to be our undoing, but sees a growing possibility that we will be our own undoing. (hedged) — 00:03:09