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Very exciting to live in an apocalyptical era. I'm looking forward to discover which one of the several global threats to humanity will put us down first.

excalibur 8mo ago
I think the smart money is still on nuclear war, but the competition is getting fierce these days.
- gaigalas 8mo ago
  I think there's a strong argument for generalized systems collapse. It's a silent civilization killer, could be happening right now!
  - gzread 8mo ago
    But which system first? Could be climate, could be financial, could be political (as in "politics is the alternative to violence")
    - gaigalas 8mo ago
      I'm talking more about a slow decay that is not obvious to a single generation. One person in one lifetime wouldn't even smell it, but everything would be slowly corroding underneath. Definitely not a big single disaster scenario. More like a "wait, we don't fix things anymore" or "wait, we have way less food variety than before" realization when it hits.
- Yizahi 8mo ago
  Nuclear war is overrated. Too focused to really damage distributed systems, too hard to start, too few working nukes. Many of the old rockets on all sides likely won't even fly correctly. Now drop world shipping via blockades and active war zones, and the industry collapse would be worse than anything Sarah Connor saw.
randusername 8mo ago
> Very exciting to live in an apocalyptical era Reminds me of that advice about depression more generally. Something like "If you can't be optimistic, settle for being curious about the way it all unfolds"
- gaigalas 8mo ago
  Given the known past history, I think this is one of the first times ever we can actually prevent an apocalypse-level event. I'm also looking forward to see amazing attempts at prevention of collapse and recovery.
barbazoo 8mo ago
Kids alive today will get to see some wild shit toward the end of the century.
Yizahi 8mo ago
Famine, the perennial classic. And after famine, the war to clean up the stragglers. Fun :)

excalibur 8mo ago

I think the smart money is still on nuclear war, but the competition is getting fierce these days.

gaigalas 8mo ago
I think there's a strong argument for generalized systems collapse. It's a silent civilization killer, could be happening right now!
- gzread 8mo ago
  But which system first? Could be climate, could be financial, could be political (as in "politics is the alternative to violence")
  - gaigalas 8mo ago
    I'm talking more about a slow decay that is not obvious to a single generation. One person in one lifetime wouldn't even smell it, but everything would be slowly corroding underneath. Definitely not a big single disaster scenario. More like a "wait, we don't fix things anymore" or "wait, we have way less food variety than before" realization when it hits.
Yizahi 8mo ago
Nuclear war is overrated. Too focused to really damage distributed systems, too hard to start, too few working nukes. Many of the old rockets on all sides likely won't even fly correctly. Now drop world shipping via blockades and active war zones, and the industry collapse would be worse than anything Sarah Connor saw.

randusername 8mo ago

> Very exciting to live in an apocalyptical era Reminds me of that advice about depression more generally. Something like "If you can't be optimistic, settle for being curious about the way it all unfolds"

gaigalas 8mo ago
Given the known past history, I think this is one of the first times ever we can actually prevent an apocalypse-level event. I'm also looking forward to see amazing attempts at prevention of collapse and recovery.

barbazoo 8mo ago

Kids alive today will get to see some wild shit toward the end of the century.

Yizahi 8mo ago

Famine, the perennial classic. And after famine, the war to clean up the stragglers. Fun :)