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I hope it doesn't take so long to happen again that we have nobody around who remembers how to fix what it breaks. If so it'll be back to the stone ages for hu
by __MatrixMan__ 1y ago
I hope it doesn't take so long to happen again that we have nobody around who remembers how to fix what it breaks. If so it'll be back to the stone ages for humanity.
- zwnow 1y agoYea billions of dead people. What a thing to hope for.
- Aachen 1y agoI didn't read the comment in that way, but rather that it's better to kill electronics while we still have people alive who know how to build back better rather than that it strikes us in a situation where robots make everything from food to food-making robots
- HKH2 1y agoA guy once wrote a whole book about that. Unfortunately he started randomly killing people.
- acuozzo 1y agoI don't condone what he did, but... 1. His intention wasn't to destroy in order to build resilience. 2. His targets weren't random.
- hyperdimension 1y agoI'm dense. Who are you two talking about?
- acuozzo 1y agoUnabomber
- HKH2 1y agoHe saw a tech-dependent society as being fragile. Towards the end of the book he talked about subverting the current system which he clearly wanted to destroy before it got out of hand.
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- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoI was going for something more like a well-timed stress test, and less like a program of willful destruction.
- alex-robbins 1y agoYou think that the farther in the future you go, the less likely it is that any existing population will know how to fix what breaks? That strikes me as oddly pessimistic, and frankly unlikely.
- zwnow 1y agoWell big tech wants to replace all the white collar jobs with their bullshit ChatGPT wrappers, so it wouldn't be surprising if actual skill vanishes.
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y agoIsn't that a bit pessimistic? Assuming machine natural language understanding and general reasoning improves dramatically (which seems possible, based on recent history), it is likely that (given that we still have the data) at some point in the future anyone will have the ability to acquire these skills, or that machine agents will be skilled enough to guide human or other types of agents to do things.
- zwnow 1y agoThe post is about solar events, good luck getting machine agents working in case this happens... It is pessimistic yes, but what in recent history did happen to not have a pessimistic outlook on things?
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y agoAs far as I am aware, the vast majority of electrical components will still function during an extreme solar particle event. The major risk is to electrical distribution, but, as you are surely aware, there are other ways to access electricity off grid.
- bongodongobob 1y agoThe only things impacted would be long powerlines, not discrete electronics components, only things that look like very big antennas will have issues.
- meindnoch 1y agoWe will ask ChatGPT!