[Nasrudith]

Existential risk is a doomsday prediction. And we all know the track record of doomsday predictions. 99% of the time it shows a simple lack of a sense of proportion that cannot tell the difference between merely "bad" or "very bad" and "annihilation". A personal bankruptcy is bad but it isn't an existential risk to a person.

[reducesuffering]

99% throughout history. During that time, humanity has gained an accelerating command over our environment; Industrial Revolution to the Information Era. We are increasingly able to create unimaginably powerful things, yet coinciding with the fundamental that it is easier to destroy than create.

Nuclear weapons should dispel anyone of the notion that certain “doomsday” don’t have teeth. We are quite capable of obliterating ourselves out of existence by our unsophisticated control of technical might.