Some futures are stable but bad: key aspects of civilisation become locked in such that they are almost impossible to change, and because the technology that produces such a state is also what prevents its reform, these outcomes can be worse than extinction and may hold a rising share of remaining risk.

Evidence 2 passages

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  These futures are arguably worse than extinction because they are self-sustaining. The same technology that creates them prevents reform.

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  All of these unrecoverable dystopias can be understood in terms of lock-in.

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