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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 Semiconductors have been around f
by louthy 1y ago
> Any event or series of events that removes mankind's ability to produce modern computers is a global extinction-level event
Semiconductors have been around for, what, 70 years? The idea that humans couldn’t survive without modern tech is ludicrous.
Sure, there will be fewer humans, but extincting humans completely is likely to be incredibly difficult without an atmosphere-on-fire scale event.
- vanschelven 1y agoI think the stated claim is that any event that takes out semiconductors takes out humanity, not that the lack of semiconductors itself does.
- ummonk 1y agoThe point isn't that humans couldn't survive without computers, but that any even that managed to stop humans globally from manufacturing computers would be such a massively disruptive event in much more important areas than computing.
- louthy 1y ago> massively disruptive event That’s not the same as what I was replying to: “a global extinction-level event” The difference is pretty substantial.