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If 99.999% of humans die, the remaining 0.001% probably will be killed by unmaintained infrastructure failing. Imagine every nuclear reactor melting down, dams
by Qem 3y ago
If 99.999% of humans die, the remaining 0.001% probably will be killed by unmaintained infrastructure failing. Imagine every nuclear reactor melting down, dams failing one after another and flooding large areas, dangerous chemicals leaking from unmaintained tanks, et cetera. We avoid a lot of disasters daily because people are actively maintaining things.
- cratermoon 3y ago> We avoid a lot of disasters daily because people are actively maintaining things. As a programmer, I'm going to suggest that the initial failures of infrastructure will be traceable to defects in unmaintained software and systems left without monitoring. Most prominent current example: Twitter