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Do we, though, know what we got wrong? In the hypothetical, our civilization has failed and a new group is trying to use this manual to start up civilization a
by andrewla 4y ago
Do we, though, know what we got wrong?
In the hypothetical, our civilization has failed and a new group is trying to use this manual to start up civilization again. Who is to say that one of the things that we think we got wrong would, in fact, have saved our civilization?
To put it differently [1]:
> Who wants a how-to manual from a failed civilizations?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638385
- klyrs 4y agoWe know some things that we got wrong. We saw climate change coming, generations ahead. Could a time traveller change a damned thing? Probably not! Unless they had some brilliant tech, say,chemistry for excellent batteries and solar panels that could have been made with 50s tech -- that might have put us on a different trajectory altogether.