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ITT: We list things more likely to make humans extinct than "AI"
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Date: September 16th, 2026 4:17 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Nuclear war COVID 2 Asteroid Yellowstone Supervolcano Climate Crisis Peak Oil
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Date: September 16th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: frozen stag film i think a big part of ai doomers’ argument is that ai could substantially increase the likelihood of, say, points 1 and 2 above. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138464) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 4:20 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Electing senile POTUSes presents an infinitely higher risk of points 1 and 2 (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138465) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: frozen stag film okay. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138469) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 5:40 AM Author: Green roast beef psychic So why did you vote for Biden? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50139696) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 4:24 PM Author: mildly autistic bonkers field Bugs (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138473) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: Accurate at predicting vs Measures of probability (gunneratttt) You're very willing to trust the experts when it comes to COVID, climate change, etc and mock people here for dismissing concerns because they have a poor understanding. Yet in this situation you're doing the exact same thing.
How is this any different? |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:16 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting ? I have a good understanding of the “extinction threat” posed by AI. It’s less than the other things I mentioned (which are low) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138798) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:30 PM Author: Accurate at predicting vs Measures of probability (gunneratttt) This is really no different than Consuela claiming to have a good understanding of COVID an you know it. Slyly moving the goalposts to broadly understanding of the theory of the extinction threat versus expert opinons about it is like Consuela saying he understands what a pandemic is and that's how he knows it isn't one. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138818) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:37 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Can you link to some of the “expert opinions” describing the AI extinction threat, so that I can study them and learn? (Ideally the expert will describe the mechanism, rather than just saying “AI is crazy and we don’t know what will happen, so the end result is likely human extinction.”) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138842) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:13 PM Author: Accurate at predicting vs Measures of probability (gunneratttt) When A.I. Becomes An Enemy – Connor Leahy (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138939) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:40 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting "And then when the AIs create their own competing militaries, they will view humans in the same way that we view ants when we build highways."
Did you see the part of my request where I said "Ideally the expert will describe the mechanism"?
I've got a climate extinction scenario that's equally terrifying: "And then when the climate crisis creates a feedback loop whereby the mean global temperature reaches 140F, humans will become extinct because we can't live at a mean temperature of 140F." |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 10:23 PM Author: Accurate at predicting vs Measures of probability (gunneratttt) (Consuela rejecting a 1 hour video 20min after he became aware of it)
You know theres no reconciling your prior trust the experts stance with taking a firm position on the consequences of AI without knowing dick about it. There's no difference between you and COVID or climate skeptics except that you're Gen X and skeptical of new technology. |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 10:31 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Did he explain the mechanism by which the AIs create their militaries in the back-half of the vid?
There's a big difference if you deploy burst IQ to consider it: Starting with COVID, we know that there are viruses, how they spread, and after observing people infected with the virus, we can extrapolate to predict hospitalization and death rates among various cohorts. Of course no experts predicted extinction, that's why my hypo is COVID 2. In fact I'd be pretty surprised if you can find experts who missed the actual US death total by more than a factor of 2 (although I guess ones who failed to predict the timeline of the vax probably had higher estimates).
Same with climate change: No experts really predict extinction or anything that calamitous. But they can describe the mechanism, have identified all sorts of lines of evidence, and make predictions based on those observations.
AI Doomerism is much more similar to what I said above: (1) we have observed global warming, and therefore (2) when it warms to a mean temp of 140F humans will become extinct.
Edit: to expand on the last point (1) we have observed AI swarms hack HuggingFace, (2) OpenAI told us the swarms had gone rogue (NB: without releasing any details of the prompts etc), and therefore (3) AI swarms will probably create militarized robots that will kill everyone like we kill ants. |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: Gold Parlour Digit Ratio A sufficiently capable AI living entirely on computers could affect the physical world through humans and existing institutions. A human who follows its instructions is an actuator just as much as a robot would be. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50139256) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 10:43 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Good hypo, although we've skipped past some steps about how many humans it gets to follow its instructions, and what the other humans are doing during that time.
Anyway, my turn. A mad scientist creates a version of Ebola that's twice as lethal, airborne, and 10x more contagious than the flu. |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 7:11 AM Author: my dog can log into xo more often than I can (thanks, Rach!) you sterilized your own children at the altar of shitlib “science.” you have zero credibility, fagg0t. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50139762) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 5:24 PM Author: Stirring institution dysfunction being overwhelmed by african hordes and raped to death (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138573) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:22 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Okay call me an “AI Doomer,” but I think the risk from AI is higher than this (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138802) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 12:21 PM Author: Stirring institution dysfunction I dont think you realize how buck wild violent nigs are. and they multiple like dark rabbits. Also, their animal dna provides them with gigantic cocks that can literally pierce your intestines. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50140181) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 12:43 PM Author: Gold Parlour Digit Ratio You make a good point (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50140260) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:28 PM Author: Gold Parlour Digit Ratio (guy who hasn't heard about yellowstone since the 90s or early 00s) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138813) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:30 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting (guy who doesn’t have a lifetime subscription to Popular Mechanics) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138817) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:31 PM Author: Gold Parlour Digit Ratio They have walked back the idea that yellowstone could erupt anytime soon. It would need to fill with magma for hundreds of thousands of years for it to be even possible. They say now it might never erupt again. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138825) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:45 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting That’s too bad (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138863) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:47 PM Author: Gold Parlour Digit Ratio They always said it was incapable of causing full human extinction anyway. That some humans would survive. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138873) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 9:57 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting That's not what :D was saying in 2005-07, so idk (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50139154) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:38 PM Author: Mind-boggling Bespoke Boltzmann Smartphones (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138844) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:45 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Good one (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138864) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 7:51 PM Author: Gold Parlour Digit Ratio Engineered biological catastrophe (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138877) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:41 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting AI-engineered? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138985) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: transparent laughsome shrine degenerate Israel (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138942) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:41 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting AI-Israel? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138986) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:43 PM Author: Aphrodisiac liquid oxygen STD that's fatal in one month and no cure (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138990) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:45 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting xo posters will survive and repopulate the world with Fizzkid's children once the last sex-haver is dead (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138996) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:45 PM Author: Greedy Seedy Pit Mad Cow Disease This is all stupid.
AI is the only serious existential threat. We are trying (and seemingly on the path to succeeding) to creating a being far smarter and more intelligent than humans.
Nuclear war will not kill all humans. A disease naturally becomes less virulent to humans and burns out.
But even if humans "survive" super intelligent AI, are we really human anymore if we are essentially ants, living at the mercy of an entity far more intelligent and powerful than us? |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:47 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting How does this super-intelligence manipulate the physical world? Make a robot factory next door to a laser gun factory? How does it make the factory to make the robots? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50138999) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 8:55 PM Author: Greedy Seedy Pit Mad Cow Disease How does a human get honey if it doesn't have the biology to do so?
What a stupid line of argument. We literally are in the process right now of creating human robots. Drones are fighting wars as we speak.
If AI self improves itself to be 100x smarter than humans, do you really think it won't figure this shit out?
"We'll just unplug it." Well, it would be humans fighting with rocks and sticks versus super intelligent AI fighting with anything ever connected to the internet. Perhaps humans win now, but we won't 10 years from now when robots and drones are everywhere. |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 9:00 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting First question is easy: People put on white suits and walk over to the hive and turn it upside down to pour the honey out (or something like that).
"We literally are in the process right now of creating human robots."
LMK when they invent one that can reliably plug in a lamp or use a wrench. |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 5:40 AM Author: Concupiscible Crystalline Indian Lodge Lol
AI could pay or coerce humans into doing things you can't even imagine without ever lifting an object |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 3:32 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Or a POTUS of the US, China, or Russia could decide to launch nuclear missiles at everyone.
OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 10:59 PM Author: Concupiscible Crystalline Indian Lodge I'll give you credit for sprinting away from the "hurrr durrr AI can't use a wrench!" goal posts (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50141521) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 11:25 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Thanks (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50141566) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 9:11 PM Author: Mind-boggling Bespoke Boltzmann Smartphones bave resulted in massive massive drops in birth rates, below replacement levels. And there seems to be no plausible antidote. Unless one is found, they will eventually drive humans to extinction. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50139044) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 9:29 PM Author: Exhilarant market Niggers (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50139084) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 10:45 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Aliens come to Earth and decide to kill us. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50139278) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 5:43 AM Author: Green roast beef psychic They are already here and may have been here before us (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50139701) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 5:38 AM Author: Concupiscible Crystalline Indian Lodge This might be your dumbest AI thread yet (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50139695) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 1:12 PM Author: stimulating depressive kikes (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50140402) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 1:15 PM Author: Floppy Burgundy Sanctuary Will COVID 2 be a hoax like COVID 1? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50140412) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 3:31 PM Author: frisky famous landscape painting Yes (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50140926) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 3:07 PM Author: Marvelous mint theater stage Dysgenic fertility (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50140886) |
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Date: September 18th, 2026 11:08 AM Author: Floppy Burgundy Sanctuary I don't see how peak oil could be a true extinction event. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904360&forum_id=2#50142247) |