Existential risks

Vend wrote:
On 25 Apr, 22:18, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm inclined to assign meteorite strikes, alien invasions
physics disasters, and deadly viruses - and most of the
other stuff on:

http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html

...a low probability: so I think we - or our machine
descendants - are likely to make it at least as far
as starting a galactic civilisation.

That site fails to address properly the resource depletion hazard,
IMO.

Resource depletion? But the planet is enormous - and we
have only just begun to scratch its surface. And E=mc^2,
and 'c' is enormous - so gigantic energies can be created
simply by smashing atoms together.

Resource depletion hazards seem a long way off to me.
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