Scientific Pessimism

Some absolute nonsense cropped up on Twitter today. Max Tegmark, physicist and President of "The Future of Life Institute" claims to have performed the most "scientifically complete" simulation of what a nuclear war between the USA and Russia would be like. This "scientifically complete" simulation completely ignored...almost everything (like US missile defence systems...just for starters). This nonsense is in the same lineage as "AI will kill us all" or "Climate change will destroy the world". These people won't stop. Martin Rees the astronomer co-founded the "Centre for Existential Risk", Nick Bostrom is director of the "Future of Humanity" institute and Will MacAskill is chair of "The Global Priorities Institute" (and great supporter of Sam Bankman-Fried). These people are all "grifters" - claiming to know the future and willing to charge governments and corporations money to tell them how you're the problem and the cause of everything from mass extinction to the end of the world. This is me having fun with it all on Airchat. See my own Airchat channel here https://www.getairchat.com/bretthall/bretthall and get Airchat yourself here: https://www.getairchat.com and escape the nonsense.