It's the end of the world as we know it

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The technical term for a risk that could destroy the whole future of humanity is an "existential risk".

Wikipedia on existential risk

Nick Bostrom: "Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors."

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks [PDF]

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Do you worry about the end of the world?

Comments

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I don't worry about the end of the world (or at least human life as we know it) much. It's very unlikely that it will happen in my lifetime, and if it does it will probably be because of a factor I have no way to affect - a meteor strike, a pandemic, nuclear holocaust, something like that.

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this.