“Humanity Edging Closer To Catastrophe”: Iconic Doomsday Clock moves one second closer to midnight as global existential threats rage. Clock factors include nuclear weapons, climate crisis, artificial intelligence, infectious diseases, and conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
They’re dumbing it down too much.
We’ve no context to determine our position relative a Great Filter event. “Midnight” is meaningless.
Despite all its limitations, right now the US stock market’s VIX index is likely a better indicator of the threat level.