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> Any event or series of events that removes mankind's ability to produce modern computers is a global extinction-level event and rather than dicking around wit
by NunoSempere 1y ago
> Any event or series of events that removes mankind's ability to produce modern computers is a global extinction-level event and rather than dicking around with computers one should really be considering suicide to avoid a slow, painful, inevitable death in a hostile world surrounded by misery.
To give some color, here: https://blog.sentinel-team.org/p/how-likely-are-various-precursors https://blog.sentinel-team.org/p/how-likely-are-various-prec... is a list of a few things that could kill over 1M people in one year. Maybe your statement is not the case for solar storms in particular.
- alpaca128 1y agoThe probability estimation of "simulation shutdown" seems a bit high. It's just as speculative as alien invasions or vacuum decay.
- matltc 1y agoSpeculative rationalist dreck. Entertaining nonetheless
- roxolotl 1y agoWe just experienced 10x that 5 years ago. It did damage supply chains but it didn’t result in collapse.