Not that I am aware of. The arguments tend to be bad, not good.

I suspect it’s authentic. I discuss this in Obsolete Paradigm.

Are there any good arguments for why 1 Peter is not authentic?

or click on it with the scroll wheel of your mouse

In your reply you linked to a write-up you did on Atwill- thanks for that

Thanks for your response, I appreciate your time

Correct. It was given a fake description in the Middle Ages. It is now known by experts not to depict anything from the Bible but the Imperial Roman family. It also does not depict any bakers. And it has no connection whatever to the Tomb of the Baker in Rome. Nor does it support any of the other tinfoil hat here being linked to it.

Which were all fakes. And the fake designation of this gem was another act of hucksterism.

Also, it wasn’t in “a shipment of artifacts.” Its origin is unknown (believed to have been received in France in a payment from Byzantium at some unknown time). What you mean is, it first is mentioned in an inventory of a French royal treasury that included many mundane treasures as well (just gems and precious metals), and a plethora of bogus relics besides.

I don’t believe there is any existential risk. But there are real risks; and we ought to be preparing for and attending to them. In other words, AI will create annoying problems (it already is); and these will escalate into increasingly substantial harms. But it’s not going to destroy civilization or anything.

This is no different than any other technology. Every new drug or plastic or system poses possible global risks we should be concerned to prepare for and attend to; even the science of indoor gas stoves is telling as an example of the point; the history of leaded gasoline, likewise; and so on.

So, bad things will happen if we don’t take this threat seriously; but that is not the same thing as wiping out or even collapsing civilization (much less the human race, even less “all life on Earth”). One needs to attenuate their concerns to reality.

See:

• Is Society Going to Collapse in 20 Years?
• Ten Years to the Robot Apocalypse
• Are We Doomed?
• We Do Need to Do Something about Global Warming
• How Not to Live in Zardoz
• Will AI Be Our Moses?