Touche - doom keeps receding, until suddenly it doesn’t (because it just happened).
However, I think that one practical reason for “worrying about it” is the implied increase of our epistemic probability that Doom is going to happen. That could suggest all sorts of actions, such as: let’s take particular Doom scenarios seriously, and try to mitigate them. Certainly, let’s not scoff at doomsayers as “alarmist”(the traditional reaction), but think of why they might be right.
Touche - doom keeps receding, until suddenly it doesn’t (because it just happened).
However, I think that one practical reason for “worrying about it” is the implied increase of our epistemic probability that Doom is going to happen. That could suggest all sorts of actions, such as: let’s take particular Doom scenarios seriously, and try to mitigate them. Certainly, let’s not scoff at doomsayers as “alarmist”(the traditional reaction), but think of why they might be right.