Genetic evidence suggests that the human population may have dropped to as few as 1,000 to 10,000 individuals as a result of the Mount Toba eruption ~74,000 years ago.

Thanks for sharing, Owen S.!

@eddyjokovich
Sad to see this on CNN today about killing of 700+ animals to feed Namibians in a severe drought where there's no food.
Namibian govt plans to distribute the meat to ppl. Apparently the animals are dying anyway bc el niño has dried up water holes and food sources have gone. Wtf..
This is how it starts for us all...

#climatedisaster #humanextinction #worldpolitics #worldgonemad

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/28/climate/namibia-kill-elephants-meat-drought

#auspol #australia #humanextinction
#fascism #totalitarianism #trump

We are living in a highly controlled and manipulated environment, and have done for decades, to get us to accept our extinction is inevitable
I couldn’t agree more

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-PhOeVRTw7/?igsh=dDQ0Y3VzNnZyOGJr

#AI #AGI #ExistentialRisk #HumanExtinction: "How seriously should governments take the threat of existential risk from AI, given the lack of consensus among researchers? On the one hand, existential risks (x-risks) are necessarily somewhat speculative: by the time there is concrete evidence, it may be too late. On the other hand, governments must prioritize — after all, they don’t worry too much about x-risk from alien invasions.

This is the first in a series of essays laying out an evidence-based approach for policymakers concerned about AI x-risk, an approach that stays grounded in reality while acknowledging that there are “unknown unknowns”.

In this first essay, we look at one type of evidence: probability estimates. The AI safety community relies heavily on forecasting the probability of human extinction due to AI (in a given timeframe) in order to inform decision making and policy. An estimate of 10% over a few decades, for example, would obviously be high enough for the issue to be a top priority for society.

Our central claim is that AI x-risk forecasts are far too unreliable to be useful for policy, and in fact highly misleading."

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-existential-risk-probabilities

@soatok global warming is also a exponential growth curve we are currently +1.7c over pre industrial. all the massive increase of deady weather , flooding, forest fires, shortage of water, food shortages, crop failures, its all one cause, we need to get off OIL Immediately. #HumanExtinction #ClimateCatastrophe

[P] I will say this: I genuinely believe that tribalism is a disease, an infectious one, one that's claimed more lives than any other disease.

At the end, it won't be a viral or bacterial disease that claims life on earth, it'll be the disease of tribalism. Hence why it's The Great Filter. A species must defeat tribalism, or go extinct at their own hand.

Not Long for This World - The Twisted Poetry of a Climate Apocalypse - The Unimaginable Horrors of Our Approaching Collective Nightmare, the Total Collapse of Human Society, by Kevin Trent Boswell

Available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVBKZV9R

#BigTech #SiliconValley #LongTermism #PostHuman #TransHumanism #HumanExtinction: "Most of us would say that human extinction would be rather bad, for one reason or another. But not everyone would agree.

What kind of person prefers human extinction over continued existence? There are a few obvious suspects. One is the “philosophical pessimist” who argues that the world is full of so much human suffering that the nonexistence of our species is better than continued existence. Another is a certain stripe of radical environmentalist who claims that humanity is so destructive to the biosphere, that only our extinction can save what remains of the natural world.

Then there is a third group of people who aren’t bothered by the possibility of human extinction, and indeed some hope to actively bring it about in the coming decades. They represent a more dangerous and extreme form of pro-extinctionist ideology that is fairly widespread within Silicon Valley. In fact, some of the most powerful people in the tech world are members of this group, such as the co-founder of Google, Larry Page." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/team-human-vs-team-posthuman-which-side-are-you-on/

“Float” from my book Not Long for This World -

The Twisted Poetry of a Climate Apocalypse - The Unimaginable Horrors of Our Approaching Collective Nightmare, the Total Collapse of Human Society -

by Kevin Trent Boswell

#collapse #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #globalwarming #existential #doom #doomer #doomerism #NTHE #extinction #doomers #humanextinction #polycrisis #war #nuclearwar #overshoot #hothouseearth

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVBKZV9R

Economic growth accelerates human extinction.

Not Long for This World - The Twisted Poetry of a Climate Apocalypse - The Unimaginable Horrors of Our Approaching Collective Nightmare, the Total Collapse of Human Society - by Kevin Trent Boswell -
#collapse #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #globalwarming #existential #doom #NTHE #extinction #humanextinction #polycrisis #war #overshoot

Available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVBKZV9R

Prof. Kevin Anderson: we are going to fail. We'll reach 3-4 degrees of global warming and die from it.
#climatechaos #environment #globalwarming #humanextinction

https://youtu.be/ipdwvvZ8Wu4?si=1fBvD-Lc271fdOc3

So, there are proposals to add a category six to the Saffir-Simpson scale and I am absolutely not terrified that we'll have a category eight just like that episode of #Loki that gave my anxiety anxiety.

#Hurricane #climatechange #ExtinctionLevelEvents #HumanExtinction #HoloceneExtinction #TheAnthropoceneExtinction

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/05/category-6-hurricanes-study

Vitalik Buterin: AI may surpass humans as the 'apex species' - “Even Mars may not be safe” if superintelligent AI turns against ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-vitalik-buterin-ai-surpass-humans-apex-species #brain-computerinterface #superintelligentai #humanextinction #machinelearning #climatechange #nuclearwar #humanlife #pandemic #earth #mars

Human Extinction
A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks."

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#philosophy
#HumanExtinction

Humanity deserves everything coming its way…

Meta safety flaws meant AI could teach us to build bioweapons

#HumanExtinction

https://apple.news/A-CJDBFkMTgSVMCvsSnLaFA

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