Comment by ACCount37

Global warming just isn't harmful enough to pose a credible extinction risk.

The damage is too limited and happens far too slowly. Even the unlikely upper end projections aren't enough to upend the human civilization - the harms up there at the top end are "worse than WW2", but WW2 sure didn't end humankind. At the same time: the ever-worsening economics of fossil fuel power put a bound on climate change even in a "no climate policy" world, which we are outperforming.

It's like the COVID of global natural disasters. Harmful enough to be worth taking measures against. But just harmless enough that you could do absolutely nothing, and get away with it.

The upper bound on AI risks is: total extinction of humankind.

I fucking wish that climate change was the biggest threat as far as eye can see.