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by wafflemaker 17 days ago
What caused the end of the world then?

I guess I might try again with the game, but asking here I could get moderate spoilers without a complete spoiler.

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AI, but not the ASI or AGI kind, which makes you worry about the present since you don’t need a “god in a box” AI to end the world
We’ve had the ability to destroy the world since roughly 1970, maybe 1975. Nothing but biological intelligence required.