I think a lot of this stuff is probably just a coin flip, because we just don’t know.

I find it odd, however, when people, who seemingly accept an ASI will be developed, focus the downside risk on extinction of us as a species. Sure, that’s a risk. You know something else an ASI would likely have the ability to do, (or at least, one of its progeny)? Keep you alive and torture you for eons in weird and surreal ways.

Why is the downside always focused on paltry, meaningless things (relatively speaking) like extinction of life on earth?