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No, the climate crisis would still be our biggest problem?
edit lol downvote me you AI fools, stop wasting your time reading scifi about AGI and all the ways it could take over humanity and look out your fucking window, the Climate Catastrophe is INESCAPABLE. You are talking about maybe there being some intelligence that may or may not decide to tolerate us that may someday be created.... when there are thousands of hiroshima bombs worth of excess heat energy being pumped into the ocean and the entire earth system's climate systems are changing behavior, there is no "not dealing with this" there is no "maybe it won't happen maybe it will", there is no way to be safe from this.
This graph is FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR more terrifying than any stupid overhyped fear about AGI could ever be, if you don't understand that you are a fool and you need to work on your critical analysis skills.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
this graph is evidence of mass murder, it is just most of the murder hasn't happened yet, this isn't hyperbole, it is just the reality of introducing that much physical heat energy into the earth climate system, things will destabilize, become more chaotic and destructive and many many many people will starve, drown, or die for climate change or climate change related (i.e. wars) reasons. Even if you are lucky, your quality of life is going to decrease because everything will be more expensive, harder and less predictable. EVERYTHING