It seems like the big wipeout (if it happens, it is not predestined) is more likely going to happen due to war or cooking up the atmosphere.
On 9/8/23, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 8:46 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wednesday, September 06, 2023, >> You’re omitting the massive impact on mortality and natality from the >> clot >> shots. Safe and Effective is an illusion. Follow Ed Dowd and Steve Kirsch >> for starters: >> > > The vaccines were the only part of the pandemic response we got right. They > have side effects but they are a lot less harmful on average than the > disease itself. They saved a few million lives from Alpha and Delta, then > forced the virus to evolve to a less harmful form (Omicron) to evade the > vaccine. > > In my forecast I considered the possibility that an engineered bioweapon > (which covid was not) could exterminate all humans. I consider it unlikely > because it is much harder to design and secretly test a virus that is 100% > fatal than one that is 99% fatal, even if everyone has access to cheap > machines that concert DNA files to organisms. HIV comes close because of > the long incubation allowing it to spread undetected, because it hides by > altering your DNA, and because it attacks the immune system making vaccines > ineffective. But 3% of humans are immune, and even if nobody was, isolated > pockets of humans would survive and prevent further spread. Nanobots would > have advantages over viruses, but that technology is 80-100 years away at > the current rate of Moore's law. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T206dd0e37a9e7407-M5f967651865be267bbb26307 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
