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I think what they're saying is "the worst thing you can think of is already happening"
Yeah that's a dramatic version but from our human perspective it's about the same.
That's basically the plot to Horizon: Zero Dawn!
Minor but important point: the grey goo scenario isn't limited to the surface of the earth; while I'm sure such variations exist, the one I'm most familiar with results in the destruction of the entire planet down to the core. Furthermore, it's not limited to just the Earth, but at that point we're unlikely to be able to notice much difference. After the earth, the ones who will suffer are the great many sapient species that may exist in the galaxies humans would have been able to reach had we not destroyed ourselves and damned them to oblivion.
Yep, that's it.
I'm sorry, but you're incorrect. To imagine the worst case scenario imagine a picture of the milky-way labeled t=0, and another picture of the milky-way labeled t=10y with a great void 10 lightyears in radius centered on where the earth used to be.
Every atom of the earth, every complex structure in the solar system, every star in the milky-way, every galaxy within the earth's current light cone taken and used to create a monument that will never be appreciated by anything except for the singular alien intelligence that built it to itself. The last thinking thing in the reachable universe.
That's awesome, have you ever read Peter Watts' Echopraxia? I read the synopsis and keep meaning to get a copy. Same with Greg Egan's Diaspora.