Chris Williamson
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Podcast Appearances
Climate change, one in 1,000.
Other environmental damage, one in 1,000.
Engineered pandemics, one in 30.
Unaligned artificial intelligence, one in 10.
The total risk is one in six.
But climate change is one in 1,000 over the next 100 years.
A stellar explosion, there you go.
One in, what's that, a billion?
I don't like that one.
That one scares the shit out of me.
I remember a documentary I watched back in the day that was about hypernovas.
And when they first started measuring these gamma bursts in space, they thought that maybe alien races were at war with each other.
Because there's this enormous burst of energy and they realize it's stars going hypernova and how many of them do it all over the universe because the universe is so big.
And there's just a single beam of like a death ray that gets sent out across the universe.
Just unimaginable power.
And it happens all the time.
It's happening all the time in the sky.
And if it happens anywhere near you, it just takes out the whole solar system, takes out everything.
If it happens in neighboring solar systems, it takes us out, takes out everything.