This is neat to see!Obviously, some of these items are much more likely than others to kill 100M+ lives.WW3 seems like a big wild card to me. I’d be curious if there are any/many existing attempts to try to estimate would it would look like and how bad it would be.
some of these items are much more likely than others to kill 100M+ lives
Yeah, my intuition is that the ratio for solar flares seem particularly high here, because electrical system failure could be pretty correlated
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This is neat to see!
Obviously, some of these items are much more likely than others to kill 100M+ lives.
WW3 seems like a big wild card to me. I’d be curious if there are any/many existing attempts to try to estimate would it would look like and how bad it would be.
Yeah, my intuition is that the ratio for solar flares seem particularly high here, because electrical system failure could be pretty correlated